Tyne and Wear Metro-The Refurbished Haymarket Station

This is a detailed video filmed by Alex Thorkildsen (Coach, Coach96, CoachAlex1996) showing all of the aspects of Haymarket station (apart from the lift). It shows the outside, ticket hall, escalators, both platforms and their entrances and crossovers and trains at the station. Filmed: 3rd Jan 2010 and 17th Feb 2010

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Travel & Events

[unknownperson95]

Very good video, and an awesome station!

[CoachAlex1996]

@unknownperson95 Thanks :)

[SteamboatWilley]

Nice, modern station. I'll have to pay a visit one of these days.

[scorchx3000]

@Edwiness

No way is the metro 120 metres underground. I use metro all the time, i'd say 20 metres at a push. The tyne pedestrian tunnels escalators, at the time of construction, they were the highest single-rise escalators in the world, with a vertical rise of 85 ft (26 m) and a length of 200 ft (61 m). Haymarkers escalators are not even half of that.

[CoachAlex1996]

@Edwiness you are right

[Edwiness]

@CoachAlex1996 Ok, here is proof. The deepest metro station in the world is Arsenalna in Kiev. It is 102m deep. Here is a view of the journey from the entrance to the platforms: 5yi5L5Q58jw

[CoachAlex1996]

@Edwiness probably, I'll ask metro next time I am in the control centre

[Edwiness]

@CoachAlex1996 Well you're foolish. He's probably getting feet mixed up with metres.

[CoachAlex1996]

@Edwiness hmmmm you have a point however my grandpa built these tunnels and thats what he says so I just take his word for it

[Edwiness]

@CoachAlex1996 no way is it 120m underground, look how short the escalators are. Stations on the St Petersburg Metro are that deep and they take up to 3 minutes to descend on the escalators.