[2] The Tyne and Wear Metro station was designed by Faulkner-Brown Hendy Watkinson Stonor and L. J. Couves & Partners.

[3] It was chosen by Simon Jenkins as one of the top 100 stations in Britain, being described as a "miniature homage to the modernist architect Mies van der Rohe".

[5] The station is equipped with ticket machines, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms.

Additional services operate between Pelaw and Benton, Monkseaton, Regent Centre or South Gosforth at peak times.

[11] Rolling stock used: Class 599 Metrocar The Garden Front art installation, was commissioned for the station in 1978, and was designed by sculptor Raf Fulcher.