Bank Foot
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mankind 2k, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: metro station in Tyne & Wear
- Also known as: “Bank Foot metro station” and “Bank Foot Metro station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kingston Park and Kingston Park.
Kingston Park
Stadium
Photo: David Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingston Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Kingston Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is used mostly for rugby union and rugby league matches and is the home stadium of Premiership Rugby side Newcastle Red Bulls. Kingston Park is situated 2,100 feet northeast of Bank Foot.
Kingston Park
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kingston Park is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburb of Kingston Park in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was opened in 1985, adjacent to the level crossing carrying Brunton Lane across the railway and with staggered platforms on either side of the level crossing. Kingston Park is situated 2,600 feet east of Bank Foot.
Kingston Park
Residential area
Photo: Phil Thirkell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingston Park is a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, about 4 miles north west of the city centre. It is home to several large retailers, the largest being one of Tesco's flagship stores—at 11,055 square metres which was also the largest supermarket in the United Kingdom for one period of time. Kingston Park is situated 1,200 feet east of Bank Foot.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kenton and Westerhope.
Kenton
Suburb
Photo: Newbiggin Hall Scouts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kenton is a suburb and electoral ward in the north west of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It borders the Town Moor and Gosforth.
Westerhope
Suburb
Photo: sue hayton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Westerhope is an area in western Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was founded to provide housing for working families with sufficient land to grow vegetables.
Coxlodge
Suburb
Coxlodge is an area situated between Fawdon, Gosforth and Kenton in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Until 1974 it was in Northumberland. Coxlodge is situated 1½ miles east of Bank Foot.
Bank Foot
Latitude
55.01392° or 55° 0′ 50″ northLongitude
-1.67807° or 1° 40′ 41″ westElevation
253 feet (77 metres)Operator
NexusNetwork
Tyne and Wear MetroOpen location code
9C7W287C+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 4523848873OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationGeoNames ID
7676978Wikidata ID
Q4855918
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Bank Foot” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “堤岸腳站”
- French: “Bank Foot”
- Japanese: “バンク・フット駅”
- Portuguese: “Bank foot (metro de newcastle)”
- Portuguese: “Bank Foot”
- Portuguese: “Estação Bank Foot”
- Ukrainian: “Бенк-Фут”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bank Foot”. Photo: Mankind 2k, CC BY 2.5.