Brockley Whins Metro station
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| Location | Brockley Whins, South Tyneside England | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54°57′34″N 1°27′38″W / 54.9595193°N 1.4606840°W | ||||||||||
| Grid reference | NZ345628 | ||||||||||
| System | Tyne and Wear Metro station | ||||||||||
| Transit authority | Tyne and Wear PTE | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Bicycle facilities | 5 cycle pods | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Step-free access to platform | ||||||||||
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| Station code | BYW | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | B | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Original company | Brandling Junction Railway | ||||||||||
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway | ||||||||||
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| 9 March 1840 | Opened as Brockley Whins | ||||||||||
| 19 June 1844 | Resited | ||||||||||
| 1 March 1925 | Renamed Boldon Colliery | ||||||||||
| 8 July 1991 | Renamed Brockley Whins | ||||||||||
| 31 March 2002 | Joined the Tyne and Wear Metro network | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2017/18 | 0.22 million | ||||||||||
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Brockley Whins is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburbs of Boldon Colliery and Brockley Whins, in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 31 March 2002, following the opening of the Green line extension from Pelaw to South Hylton.