Chillingham Road Metro station is located in the south of the Heaton

Heaton, Newcastle

Heaton is a residential suburb and is split into two electoral wards located in the east end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, about from the City Centre. It is bordered by the neighbouring areas of Benton and Cochrane Park to the north, Walker and Walkergate to the east, Byker to the south and...

 area 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...

, and is served by 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...

 service. It was originally to be called Parsons, reflecting its proximity to the Parsons engineering works. It is located adjacent to the tracks of Heaton TMD

Heaton TMD

Heaton TMD is a railway Traction Maintenance Depot situated in the Heaton area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is located next to the East Coast Main Line, around east of Newcastle railway station. The depot is operated by Northern Rail, and mostly houses stock operated by them and Grand Central...

 and the East Coast Main Line

East Coast Main Line

The East Coast Main Line is a long electrified high-speed railway link between London, Peterborough, Doncaster, Wakefield, Leeds, York, Darlington, Newcastle and Edinburgh...

 at the end of a long path from Chillingham Road, and is unusual in that electronic displays

Passenger information system

A passenger information [display] system is an electronic information system which provides real-time passenger information. It may include both predictions about arrival and departure times, as well as information about the nature and causes of disruptions...

 showing the arrival times of the next trains were only installed in 2009.

Close to the station is Brough Park Stadium, which holds regular greyhound racing

Greyhound racing

Greyhound racing is the sport of racing greyhounds. The dogs chase a lure on a track until they arrive at the finish line. The one that arrives first is the winner....

 meetings and is home to the Newcastle Diamonds

Newcastle Diamonds

Newcastle Diamonds are a motorcycle speedway team who compete in the British Premier League. The club has a reputation of importing young foreign talent and have given starts to the British careers of six times World Champion Ivan Mauger, three times World Champion Ole Olsen, 1974 World Champion...

 speedway

Motorcycle speedway

Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...

 team. Chillingham Road is also the closest Metro station to the location of the former Heaton railway station. West of here, the Metro route diverges from the former North Eastern Railway

North Eastern Railway (UK)

The North Eastern Railway , was an English railway company. It was incorporated in 1854, when four existing companies were combined, and was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the Grouping in 1923...

 line through Heaton in order to serve 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...

. Immediately east of the station there was a track connection into Heaton depot and into the Parsons works, but rail traffic into Parsons ceased just before this section of the Metro opened. The connection remained in place, however, until BR resignalling of Heaton depot at the end of the decade.

Chillingham Road was the first surface station to undergo major renovation, being completed in October 2011.

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 Chillingham Road 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....