Pelaw Metro station

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Pelaw
Looking west along the eastbound platform at Pelaw
Location
Place	Pelaw
Local authority	Gateshead
Fare zone information
Network Zone	36
Metro Zone	B
History
Opened	1985-09-16
Tyne and Wear Metro List of Tyne and Wear Metro stations

Pelaw Metro station serves the Pelaw area of Gateshead, England. Situated on the Tyne and Wear Metro system, it is at the point where the Yellow and Green lines diverge, with the former continuing to South Shields and the latter over tracks shared with mainline trains to Sunderland and then onwards to South Hylton. Prior to the opening of the Sunderland extension in 2002, this was the terminus of the Yellow line (which ran to South Hylton until 2005) and it is still used as a reversing point for several services a day with trains emptying here and running empty into sidings at the east end of the station.

The present station was added to the Metro in 1985, one year after the South Shields line opened; the previous Yellow line terminus had been Heworth. Pelaw is located to the south of the site of an original station dating from 18 November 1896. In 2006, the station was rebuilt with a new entrance section and waiting room more appropriate to its position as the transfer station between the Sunderland and South Shields branches.

A minibus stop is located across the bridge that routes through the Wardley estate throughout the day.