Bank Foot Metro station
Bank Foot | |||||||||||
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| Tyne and Wear Metro station | |||||||||||
Bank Foot station, looking east in 2010, after the Airport extension had been built | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Kenton Bank Foot Newcastle upon Tyne England | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 55°00′50″N 1°40′41″W / 55.0139176°N 1.6780732°W | ||||||||||
| Grid reference | NZ206688 | ||||||||||
| Transit authority | Tyne and Wear PTE | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | 62 spaces | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 8 cycle pods | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Step-free access to platform | ||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||
| Station code | BFT | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | B | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Original company | Tyne and Wear Metro | ||||||||||
| Key dates | |||||||||||
| 10 May 1981 | Opened as terminus of line | ||||||||||
| 17 November 1991 | Line extended to Airport | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2017/18 | 0.11 million | ||||||||||
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Bank Foot is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburbs of Woolsington and Kenton in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It opened as a single platform terminal station in 1981, with the opening of the second phase of the metro, between South Gosforth and Bank Foot. It was restructured as a two platform through station in 1991, with the opening of the extension to Newcastle Airport.