Category Archives: Tyne and Wear Metro

Every platform on every Tyne and Wear Metro station now has tactile paving on the platform edge – making it the first rail network in England to have this feature, giving a major accessibility upgrade for blind and partially sighted … Continue reading →

The North East Joint Transport Committee have approved the first North East Rail and Metro Strategy, which outlines plans to upgrade the East Coast Mainline, reopen the Leamside Line and, most pertinent to this website, extended the Tyne and Wear … Continue reading →

Another major concert will be taking place at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light on Sunday 19th June with Elton John performing. To help people get to and from the concert there will be extra services running both before and after.

Nexus and local community volunteers have teamed up to plant a tree at Cullercoats Metro station to help mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The plum tree was planted in a special ceremony attended by volunteers from the Cullercoats Collective, staff … Continue reading →

The Tyne and Wear Metro will be running extra services before and after the Ed Sheeran concert taking place at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light as they prepare for their busiest couple of days for more than three years. The concerts … Continue reading →

Metro Flow – a scheme which will see three single track sections in South Tyneside dualled – is starting to ramp up ahead of a major three month closure later this year. The £100 million project – partially funded by … Continue reading →

The Metro Invention Challenge – run by Nexus alongside creative education organisation Little Inventors – has see children come up with some unique inventions aimed at making journeys on the network more fun. Winning entries included a seat just for … Continue reading →

Mick Duckett, a local artist, is to draw a 40 page comic to celebrate the work of frontline staff on the Tyne and Wear Metro. The comic book will tell the stories of Metro’s frontline employees as they look after … Continue reading →

Now with added photo (24.5.22) The latest light rail network in the UK to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is the Tyne and Wear Metro with 4020 receiving special vinyls to mark the occasion. We’d previously said that Blackpool’s offering … Continue reading →

In all the excitement surrounding the new trains for the Tyne & Wear Metro – mock-ups, simulators, construction process – it can easily be forgotten how things were back in the late 1970s when the system was in the final … Continue reading →

Nexus are on the look out for nine new apprentices to start in Autumn 2022 – with many of the roles on the Tyne and Wear Metro. With over 90% of apprentices moving either into higher apprenticeships or permanent roles … Continue reading →

The latest four weekly performance statistics poster from the Tyne and Wear Metro has again been put up at stations across the network and shows a bit of positive news as it is up from the previous month. Sadly after … Continue reading →

There was a major anti-social behaviour incident on the Tyne and Wear Metro on Saturday 30th April with a shopping trolley was thrown at a moving train by a group of youths. Following this incident Nexus and Northumbria Police released … Continue reading →

Another week and another milestone in the construction of the new trains for the Tyne and Wear Metro. Stadler – who are building 46 new trains – have now started manufacture of the first of 276 sets of bogies (each … Continue reading →

Four artists from the north east of England have won the commission to supply artwork to be applied to the interior of the new Tyne and Wear Metro trains after an open call for submissions. Each artist will go on … Continue reading →

As the redevelopment of the Tyne and Wear Metro’s Gosforth Depot continues a new state of the art wheel lathe has been installed which will save time and should make train maintenance more efficient. The depot is being developed in … Continue reading →

A new exhibition called Metro Memories which celebrates the history of the Tyne and Wear Metro has opened at The Common Room, Westgate Road, Newcastle. Featuring photographs, film and interviews with key decision makers along with engineers, designers and many … Continue reading →