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Car Hire Newcastle Upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne is one of the principal cities of England and is to be found in Wear and Tyne. Located north of the Tyne River, it was identified as the town of Northumberland. The city of Newcastle has many sites to be seen like the Discovery Museum, Tyne Bridge and the famous football playing ground St James Park. All these are easily accessed when you use car hire for faster trips.

Newcastle upon Tyne is a provincial capital that clings very close to the northern side of Tyne River. The city is famous for hosting 7 city bridges across the River. The most well-known of these seven bridges is possibly the huge domed suspension type of bridge which carries the motorway A1 used by buses and rental cars to very people across. The oldest of the bridges is The Robert Stephenson bridge is the oldest and carries both the rail bridge and the road bridge combined having being erected in the year 1849.

Stuck between those two famous bridges is a stylish swing bridge built in 1876. The other remaining bridges are later day bridges constructed in the 20th century. One bridge carries the metro and the underground railway structure, first opened in the year1980. Going along each side of Tyne River is the modern Metro connecting Newcastle upon Tyne together with diverse historic appealing sites and the beaches at Tynemouth and Whitley Bay.

Providing programmed flights for the entire United Kingdom and most of Europe the Newcastle International Airport that is located only 5 miles from the centre of the city, gives the ideal tourists touchdown for the city. You can take a trip on the Metro service to go downtown or you could also take a car hire. The Metro travels into the city’s Monument Station in a ride that takes about 20 minutes. Besides the metro, you could also take a rental car or the public bus to travel into the city centre.

A train service runs from the nation’s capital London to the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and back roughly each half an hour. The train also makes two stops at Peterborough and Doncaster during a journey that lasts about three hours. The city of Edinburgh is just about one and a half hours away by train. Other regular trains connect with the rest of the nation’s cities like Leeds, Birmingham, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, York, Glasgow and many other places.

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