Pelaw Metro station

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.

Pelaw Metro station is built on the site of a previous main line station, opened by the Brandling Junction Railway in 1839. The station was rebuilt slightly to the east a few years later, but then rebuilt again on the original site in 1896. This station had an island platform serving just the southern pair of tracks. In preparation for the Metro, BR passenger services were diverted onto the freight-only northern pair of tracks between here and Park Lane Junction at Gateshead, and Felling and Pelaw stations closed in November 1979, being replaced by a new station at Heworth Interchange. Trains continued to run round the disused platform at Pelaw for a short period before Pelaw Junction was remodelled, after which it was demolished to make way for the Metro tracks.

Pelaw station was not initially replaced, but following the completion of new housing nearby a new station was built on the site of the old; it opened in September 1985, a year and a half after the South Shields line opened, and became the terminus of the Yellow Line (from St. James via the Coast) and the Red Line (from Benton, now discontinued). Terminating trains continued to reverse in the sidings to the east of the station. When the Sunderland extension opened, Pelaw ceased to be a terminus, except in the morning and evening peaks.

In 2006, the station was rebuilt with a new ticket hall and indoor waiting area more appropriate to its position as the transfer station between the Sunderland and South Shields branches.

External links

• Train times and station information for Pelaw Metro station from Nexus