Haymarket Metro station
Haymarket  | ||||||||||||||||
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 The Haymarket Hub, in which the station is located. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Haymarket, NE1 Newcastle upon Tyne England | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54°58′39″N 1°36′50″W / 54.9775°N 1.6139°W | |||||||||||||||
| OS Grid ref | NZ 248 648 | |||||||||||||||
| System | Tyne and Wear Metro | |||||||||||||||
| Owner | Nexus | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||
Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||
Cycle facilities | Yes[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Step-free access throughout, with lifts from street-level to platforms and level-boarding to trains[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Architect | Reid Jubb Brown[2] | |||||||||||||||
| Other information | ||||||||||||||||
| Status | Staffed part-time[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Station code | HAY | |||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | A | |||||||||||||||
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| 11 August 1980 | Opened as a terminus[a] | |||||||||||||||
| 15 November 1981 | Opened as a through station[b] | |||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Rebuilt/refurbished | |||||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020/21 |  0.703 million | |||||||||||||||
| 2021/22 |  3.118 million | |||||||||||||||
| 2022/23 | 4.220 million | |||||||||||||||
| 2023/24 | 3.916 million | |||||||||||||||
| 2024/25 | 4.493 million | |||||||||||||||
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Haymarket is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the Haymarket area of the Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. It opened as a terminus station on 11 August 1980,[3] following the completion of the first phase of the network, between Haymarket and Tynemouth via Four Lane Ends. The station underwent extensive remodelling in 2009.[5] It is served by up to 10 trains per hour, in each direction.[6]
History
[edit]The station opened to through services on 15 November 1981, following the opening of the third phase of the network, between Haymarket and Heworth.[7] Prior to this, trains reversed using the crossover between Haymarket and Monument.
Haymarket is situated at the northern end of Northumberland Street. It is a short walk from both Newcastle and Northumbria universities, Newcastle Civic Centre and the Great North Museum: Hancock. It is located around 100 m (330 ft) from Haymarket bus station, and 250 m (820 ft) from Eldon Square bus station.
It is the deepest station on the Tyne and Wear Metro network. Prior to the station's refurbishment in the late 2000s, the staircase (since replaced by a third escalator) had 105 steps. The station also has underground rooms, restricted from the public, which contain archives and various historical documents.[citation needed]
The station was used by 4,493,929 passengers in 2024–25.[4]
Haymarket Hub
[edit]In August 2006, final plans for the complete reconstruction of the station, costing £20 million, were released.[8] Plans for a proposed £9 million facelift for the station had previously been announced in 2004.[9]
Tolent Construction was appointed as contractor for the project, and was headed by the development vehicle, 42nd Street Haymarket Hub.[10] Reid Jubb Brown were the building's architects, with Arup employed as consulting engineers.
Newcastle-based creative communications agency, Gardiner Richardson – alongside University of Sunderland lecturer Lothar Götz – worked on redeveloping the station's passenger areas. Gardiner Richardson's work centred on updating Metro's corporate branding, including the colour palette and signage. Lothar Götz created an artwork, Canon,[11] using a number of coloured vitreous enamel panels in the concourse, escalator shaft and platform area.
A total of £5 million was spent on refurbishing the passenger area of the station, with work completed in 2009.[5] The station now serves as a blueprint for other station modernisation projects within the Metro: All Change programme,[12] with Central Station refurbished to a similar style in 2017.[13][14]
The Princess Royal, Princess Anne, officially opened the newly-refurbished Haymarket on 29 March 2010, after travelling on the Metro from Jesmond.[15][16]
Haymarket Hub was shortlisted for the 2010 Carbuncle Cup – an architecture prize, given annually by Building Design to "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months".[2]
Facilities
[edit]Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with a lift providing step-free access to platforms at Haymarket. As part of the station's refurbishment, lifts and escalators were replaced, with an additional third escalator installed. The station is equipped with ticket machines, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines are able to accept payment with credit and debit card (including contactless payment), notes and coins.[17][18] The station is fitted with automatic ticket barriers, which were installed at 13 stations across the network during the early 2010s, as well as smartcard validators, which feature at all stations.[19][20] The station houses a number of shops, services and offices.
There is no dedicated car parking available at the station. There is a taxi rank located adjacent to the nearby Haymarket bus station. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with 46 cycle spaces and 20 cycle racks available for use.[1]
Services
[edit]As of May 2026[update], the station is served by up to ten trains per hour – in each direction – on weekdays and Saturdays, and up to eight trains per hour during the evening and on Sundays. Additional services operate between Pelaw and Monkseaton or Regent Centre at peak times.[6]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Haymarket". Travel North East. Retrieved 19 June 2026.
- 1 2 Woodman, Ellis (12 August 2010). "Strata tower wins 2010 Carbuncle Cup". Building Design. London: United Business Media. ISSN 0007-3423. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
Newcastle's Haymarket Hub received multiple nominations last year but was denied a place on the shortlist on the grounds that it was yet to complete. This year the vast, jelly mould-like transport interchange by Reid Jubb Brown finally made it through. It is a building that suggests the altogether unwelcome influence of Foster & Partners' nearby Sage Gateshead. The judges quaked at the thought that we might be witnessing the birth of a new north-east vernacular.
- 1 2 3 Schwandle, Robert (2015). Tram Atlas Großbritannien & Irland: moderne Straßenbahnen/U-Bahn, Straßenbahnmuseum/Museumstram [Tram Atlas Great Britain & Ireland: modern trams/subways, tram museums/museum trams] (Map) (in German). Berlin: Robert Schwandl. pp. 132–137. ISBN 9783936573459.
- 1 2 Nexus (25 February 2026). "Passenger Numbers". WhatDoTheyKnow. Letter to Rhys Williams. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- 1 2 "Haymarket continues to go up in the world". Nexus. 29 April 2008. Archived from the original on 4 August 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
A £20 million scheme to completely rebuild the station is well underway. [...] A landmark four-storey glass and steel building will rise above the existing station, providing a new gateway to the thriving Northumberland Street shopping area and university quarter for six million passengers every year.
- 1 2 "Metro Timetable for Haymarket". Nexus. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ↑ "Royal opening takes metro over the Tyne to Gateshead". Railway Gazette International. November 1981. p. 966. ISSN 0373-5346.
- ↑ "Nexus welcomes £20m facelift at Haymarket Metro". Nexus. 18 August 2006. Archived from the original on 4 June 2007. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ↑ "£9m new look for Haymarket Metro". Evening Chronicle. Newcastle upon Tyne: Trinity Mirror. 28 February 2013 [6 April 2004]. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ↑ "Tolent PLC - Preliminary Results" (Press release). Tolent. 6 March 2008. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2026 – via Reuters.
42nd Street Haymarket Hub is a joint venture company owned 50% Tolent, 33% 42nd Street Reality Ltd, 17% Closegate.
- ↑ "Canon". Art UK. 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ↑ "Nexus announces details of Metro: all change modernisation programme". Nexus. 4 December 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ↑ "£6m Newcastle Central Metro station refurbishment complete". Rail Technology. Manchester: Cognitive Publishing. 13 March 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
- ↑ "£6m refurbishment of Metro's Newcastle Central Station completed". Nexus. 13 March 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
Like Haymarket, which was rebuilt in 2009, the development features a predominantly white interior with feature walls picked out in a pale blue feature colour, helping assist passenger navigation. The new colour scheme was chosen by Metro customers as part of a consultation exercise in early 2015.
- ↑ Davies, Katie (26 February 2013) [29 January 2010]. "Princess Royal set to open Haymarket Metro". Evening Chronicle. Newcastle upon Tyne: Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ↑ "Princess Anne officially opens Metro station revamp". BBC News. BBC. 20 March 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
Princess Anne rode on the Metro from Jesmond before unveiling a commemorative plaque.
- ↑ "Metro passengers feel the benefit of contactless payment". Nexus (Press release). 13 January 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ↑ "Revamp for Metro ticket machines". BBC News. BBC. 11 December 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
Tyne and Wear Metro passengers can now use notes and credit cards to buy train tickets at stations for the first time in the Metro's 30-year history.
- ↑ "City Metro stations get new smart ticket machines and gates". Nexus (Press release). 22 October 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ↑ "Pop card validators at Metro stations are put through their paces". Nexus (Press release). 21 March 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
Validators, automatic gates and smart Metro ticket machines are being installed as part of the roll out of the new smart travel system on Metro – the Pop card.
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