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The airport is easily accessible by Metro (roughly 5am to 11pm), with up to five trains per hour serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead and Sunderland, with connections to North Tyneside and South Tyneside. It is also served by bus services [b] from Newcastle upon Tyne, Woolsington, Ponteland and Darras Hall.
The West of England LEP's Option Development Report, published in 2016, outlined various possible routes for the new railway line: [12] A direct link to the airport from Bristol Temple Meads railway station, branching from the Bristol to Exeter line from Long Ashton, was considered to be a "fully segregated high quality link to the airport, which should provide short journey times" with "good ...
Rail usage in the West of England doubled in the ten years between 1999 and 2009. [9] A campaign for a Greater Bristol Metro was launched in February 2012, [7] with plans prepared by engineering consultancy Halcrow Group. [10] [11] The scheme was estimated to cost £22 million at 2008/09 prices and could be completed between 2016 and 2021. [6]
The North-East/South-West route (sometimes simply The Cross-Country Route) is the major British rail route running from South West England or Cardiff via Bristol, Birmingham, Derby and Sheffield to North-East England and Scotland. It includes some of the longest inter-city rail journeys in the UK, e.g. Penzance to Aberdeen.
During November 1991, the Tyne and Wear Metro was extended to Newcastle Airport at a cost of £12 million. [8] The new section of track, covering a distance of around 2.2 miles (3.5 km), continued along the alignment of the former Ponteland Railway, with two stations constructed at Callerton Parkway and Airport. [3] [28]
During the construction of the line, a dedicated bus service operated between Bank Foot and Newcastle International Airport. [4] The extension and station opened on 17 November 1991, at a cost of £12 million. The new station at the airport had a pyramid design, and was linked to both platforms and the main airport terminal by covered walkways.
This list does not include Fawdon, Bank Foot, and Regent Centre, which are located on the sites of the former Coxlodge, Kenton, and West Gosforth stations on what was once the Ponteland Railway, but which closed to passenger traffic in 1929; Pelaw, which was added to the Metro in 1985, and which is sited to the south of the former station of ...
The Bristol and Bath Railway Path is proposed to have a light rail line running alongside the pedestrian and cycling paths. In November 2016, the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership began a consultation process on their Transport Vision Summary Document, outlining potential light rail/tram routes from the city centre to Bristol Airport, the eastern and north west fringes of the city ...