Category Archives: Tyne and Wear Metro

The recent period of hot weather has been the cause of damage to the overhead line on the Tyne and Wear Metro which will necessitate the closure of part of the Tyne and Wear Metro from Tuesday 30th August. The … Continue reading →

Richard Neesham, Tyne and Wear Metro’s oldest ever driver at 75, has retired about over 40 years of service on the network. He started his job on the Metro in 1981 shortly after the system opened and despite the 3am … Continue reading →

Anyone heading to the Great North Run on Sunday 11th September should have no worries in getting there after a new joint Metro, bus and ferry ticket was unveiled. Costing just £6 the Great North Run ticket will let runners … Continue reading →

Tyne and Wear Metro services between Haymarket and Airport and Haymarket and Four Lane Ends were suspended from the afternoon of Wednesday 10th August following damage to the overhead line. The damage occurred in the Gosforth area with engineers on … Continue reading →

The future of the Tyne and Wear Metro is on public display for the first time after a full sized replica of a cab of one of the new trains was transferred to the Stephenson Steam Railway in North Tyneside … Continue reading →

Services on the Tyne and Wear Metro between St James and Tynemouth starting running again as planned on Saturday 30th July after a two week closure. The closure had been necessary to allow Tanners Bank Bridge to be replaced amongst … Continue reading →

Park and Ride sites across the Tyne and Wear Metro are set to enjoy a boost with new cashless parking facilities, improved lighting and enhanced CCTV. £3.2 million has been set-a-side by the North East Joint Transport Committee through the … Continue reading →

A new bridge which carries Tyne and Wear Metro services in North Shields has been successfully installed as a £3 million project makes excellent progress. Tanners Bank Bridge was lowered into position on Wednesday 20th July with a 100 foot … Continue reading →

It has been a couple of months since we last took a look at Tyne and Wear Metro performance – but that doesn’t matter a great deal as in the first period we take a look at in this article … Continue reading →

Three Tyne and Wear Metro stations in South Tyneside have had an extra splash of colour added with new artwork having been put on display to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the network. Hebburn, Chichester and Bede stations have … Continue reading →

Drivers on the Tyne and Wear Metro are set to prepare for the new trains due to be introduced on the network from next year by using a new state of the art simulator which has recently been installed at … Continue reading →

There will be no Tyne and Wear Metro services between St James and Tynemouth for 14 days between 16th and 29th July to allow for more modernisation works on the network. This will include the complete renewal of an ageing … Continue reading →

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 →