Byker Metro station is located in Byker

Byker

Byker is an inner city electoral ward in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. It is in the east of the city, south of the Heaton area and north of St Peter's. Byker Metro station serves the area.The area also contains the Byker Wall estate. The population of the ward is...

, an area in the east-end of Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Historically a part of Northumberland, it is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne...

. The station is on the Yellow line of the Tyne and Wear Metro

Tyne and Wear Metro

The Tyne and Wear Metro, also known as the Metro, is a light rail system in North East England, serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Sunderland. It opened in 1980 and in 2007–2008 provided 40 million public journeys on its network of nearly...

 system, and opened in 1982. During the period 2008-9 the station was used by around 430,000 passengers.

Heading west from Byker station, the route crosses the dramatic 800m long Byker Viaduct constructed by Arup

Ove Arup

Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE known as Ove Arup, was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer and generally considered to be one of the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time...

 specifically for the Metro.

Since 2005 Byker station has been used to display a series of temporary artworks through the Next Stop Byker initiative, a partnership between Metro operator Nexus and Newcastle City Council. The works are displayed on an 11 metre by 2.5 metre wall in the ticket concourse.

Ticketing anomalies

Different zonal fare systems are used for Metro single tickets and inter-modal Transfare

Transfare

A Transfare is an inter-modal ticket available for a single journey within Tyne and Wear.- Rail :Transfare tickets are valid on:* All Tyne and Wear Metro services.* Northern Rail services between Newcastle and Sunderland via Heworth....

 tickets, which means that for a number of journeys a Transfare may actually be cheaper than a standard Metro-only ticket.

Station	Network Zone	Metro Zone
Cullercoats Cullercoats Metro station Cullercoats Metro station is the Tyne and Wear Metro station serving Cullercoats on the North Tyneside coast. It was originally built by the North Eastern Railway as part of the North Tyneside Loop...	29	C
North Shields North Shields Metro station North Shields Metro Station is on the Tyne and Wear Metro Yellow line.It was formerly the terminus of the now defunct Blue line , which used a bay platform on the south side, at the west end of the station...	29	C
Tynemouth Tynemouth Metro station Tynemouth Metro station is one of the oldest stations on the Tyne and Wear Metro network. The railway station was opened in 1882 by the North Eastern Railway and is now a Grade II* listed building...	29	C
Wallsend Wallsend Metro station Wallsend Metro station is located towards the centre of Wallsend, a town on the north bank of the River Tyne, in Tyne and Wear, England. The station was originally opened on 19 June 1839 by the Newcastle & North Shields Railway, and was reopened as a Tyne and Wear Metro station on 14 November 1982...	27	B

External links

• Train times and station information for Byker Metro station from Nexus
  Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive
  The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive using the brandname of Nexus, is the Passenger Transport Executive for the Tyne and Wear region of North East England....
  
  

• Arup webpage describing Byker Viaduct
• Images of Byker Viaduct on Flickr.com