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The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system [4] [5] [6] serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland (together forming Tyne and Wear). The owners Nexus have described it as "Britain’s first light rapid transit system". [7]
Network diagram of the Tyne and Wear Metro. The Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rail network linking South Tyneside and Sunderland with Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Newcastle Airport. The network opened in stages from 11 August 1980, and now serves 60 stations and 48 miles (77 km) of track.
A metro train for St James arrives at Tynemouth station These stations were built prior to the Metro system, but have since been converted or re-built for Metro use. All except Sunderland now serve Metro trains only.
The first new Tyne and Wear Metro train had to be taken out of service after a technical failure. It was withdrawn in South Gosforth at about 08:00 GMT and had to be "reset" to resolve the fault.
Nexus is pursuing a number of major programmes aimed at improving public transport in Tyne and Wear. These include the £389 million "Metro: All Change" programme to modernise the Tyne and Wear Metro over eleven years. Most of the capital money will be invested in renewal and upgrade of infrastructure, with modernisation of stations and trains ...
2 (+2 Metro platforms) 483,836 447,702 3 MetroCentre: intu Metrocentre: Gateshead: Northern Tyne Valley Line 2 350,376 335,088 4 Heworth: Heworth: Gateshead Northern Durham Coast Line 2 20,784 21,064 5 Blaydon: Blaydon-on-Tyne: Gateshead Northern Tyne Valley Line 2 15,128 14,116 6 Dunston: Dunston: Gateshead Northern Tyne Valley Line 2 10,618 ...
The British Rail Class 555 Metro is a class of electric multiple units, commissioned and built for the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive (Nexus) by the Swiss company Stadler Rail, at a total cost of £362 million, for use on the Tyne and Wear Metro.
The Tyne and Wear Metro is a rapid transit system in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...