Tyne Dock | |||||||||||
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Tyne and Wear Metro station | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | Tyne Dock, South Tyneside England | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 54°58′34″N 1°26′30″W / 54.9761432°N 1.4416187°W | ||||||||||
Grid reference | NZ358647 | ||||||||||
Transit authority | Tyne and Wear PTE | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Parking | 34 spaces | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 2 cycle pods | ||||||||||
Accessible | Step-free access to platform | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Station code | TDK | ||||||||||
Fare zone | C | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Original company | Stanhope and Tyne Railway | ||||||||||
Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway | ||||||||||
Post-grouping | |||||||||||
Key dates | |||||||||||
1 August 1856 | Opened as Jarrow Dock | ||||||||||
1 January 1861 | Resited and renamed Tyne Dock | ||||||||||
1 June 1981 | Closed for conversion | ||||||||||
24 March 1984 | Reopened | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2017/18 | 0.30 million[1] | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Tyne Dock is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving South Tyneside Hospital and the suburb of Tyne Dock, South Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 24 March 1984, following the opening of the fifth phase of the network, between Heworth and South Shields.