Centrepoint station (R11) is the Red Line’s eastern anchor: the first (or last) station on the network, home of its largest park-and-ride, gateway to Rashidiya’s villa district – and, from September 2029, one of the two interchanges with the new Blue Line. Elevated, fare zone 5, three stops beyond the airport.
The park-and-ride that runs the suburbs
The multi-storey facility here holds thousands of cars and fills every working morning with drivers from Mirdif, Al Warqa and the eastern villa belt swapping the E311 crawl for a seat at the line’s origin – the one station where a morning seat is guaranteed, because every train starts empty here. If you live east and work along Sheikh Zayed Road, this building is the whole argument for the metro.
The rates are day-rate cheap, and the intended commuter loop is exactly that car-to-tap-to-train sequence.
Rashidiya, renamed
The station opened in 2009 as Al Rashidiya, after the district it serves, and became Centrepoint (the Landmark retail brand) in May 2021. The adjacent bus station – still commonly called Rashidiya Bus Station – fans out to Mirdif and the eastern communities the metro has not reached yet. That “yet” resolves in 2029: the Blue Line’s Centrepoint branch makes this the transfer point for City Centre Mirdif, Al Warqa and Dragon Mart.
Visitor uses, honestly
For tourists this is mostly a transit fact: the airport is three stops toward town, Dubai Festival City a short taxi, and Mirdif’s family attractions (its City Centre mall arrives on the Blue Line eventually) a bus or cab away. The exception is anyone renting a car for desert trips east – returning it out here and riding the metro in beats surrendering it to Downtown traffic.
Local tips
- Morning trick even without a car: starting a long airport-to-Marina run? Boarding one stop east at the origin sometimes buys the seat that T3’s platform cannot.
- Park-and-ride rates are day-rate cheap with a Nol tap – the intended commuter loop is car → tap → train, all one card.
- 2029 positioning: the Blue Line makes this quiet terminus a junction; Rashidiya addresses are already trading on it.
- Zone 5: airport and all Deira within one zone – AED 3 covers the whole eastern commute.
Getting here and onward
Gold Class and boarding at a terminus do not guarantee a seat or luggage space. Follow the marked cabin rules and allow for crowding.