Its time for another look at the Tyne and Wear Metro performance poster – and the latest one contains some good and some bad news for travellers on the network.
This latest four week period is for the four weeks from 12th October to 8th November 2025 and it tells us that 76% of all trains were deemed to be on time within that period. The Tyne and Wear Metro definition of on-time remains within 3 minutes later or 30 second earlier than scheduled.
That is a fall by 5% from the previous four weeks – that’s the bad news.
You would probably be thinking, well what’s the good news? Well, the same four weeks in 2025 saw only 67% of trains running on time.
Whilst almost a quarter of trains being late is hardly a cause for celebration, its at least between than a third being late!
Again, you can only hope that things will improve in the future once the new trains have fully embedded themselves into operation.
The north-east of England saw the first snow of the winter 2025/6 season in mid-November, leading to the chance to see the new trains operating with the white stuff on the ground. This photo shows 555 007 returning to Gosforth Depot just after 1000. (Photograph by Trevor Hall, 20th November 2025)