Fawdon Metro station serves the Fawdon area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is on the Green line of the Tyne and Wear Metro, and opened in 1981.
The station is located where the Metro route crosses Fawdon Lane on an automatic open level crossing, the station platforms are located on opposite sides of the road. The inbound platform towards South Hylton/Park Lane is the site of the original Coxlodge station, which was in use between 1905 and 1929 on the Ponteland Railway. The station features the New Generation Ticket Machines installed by Nexus during Early to Mid 2012, as well as the Smart Card Readers for the Nexus Pop Card. Behind it is the site of the former 'Fawdon Park House' Housing Project. The Fawdon Park Centre, built in 1965 remains and is currently undergoing re-development.
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“[T]here is no situation so deplorable ... as that of a gentlewoman in real poverty.... Birth, family, and education become misfortunes when we cannot attain some means of supporting ourselves in the station they throw us into. Our friends and former acquaintances look on it as a disgrace to own us.... If we were to attempt getting our living by any trade, people in that station would think we were endeavoring to take their bread out of their mouths.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)