Category Archives: Tyne and Wear Metro

The new – and temporary – Tyne and Wear Metro depot at Howdon in North Tyneside is nearing completion with an official opening due later this summer. The new facility will be used to outstation a number of trains each … Continue reading →

New artwork designed by year 6 pupils at Percy Main Primary School has been put on display at the new Tyne and Wear Metro depot in Howdon as part of a safety campaign. The artwork has been put on a … Continue reading →

During this Covid-19 pandemic, the actual performance of our light railways and tramways has been quite a way from the front of our minds but recently the Tyne and Wear Metro have started to publish the stats again. These show … Continue reading →

Nexus have recently employed a specialist firm to use birds of prey to keep seagulls off the roof of the new multi million pound South Shields Interchange to prevent them from claiming it as their territory and starting to nest … Continue reading →

Stadler – who have been awarded the contract to deliver the £362m Tyne and Wear Metro train fleet and new depot – have taken the first step towards taking control of maintenance of the current fleet with their new management … Continue reading →

It has been reported in The Railway Magazine that Tyne and Wear Metro 4022 has been scrapped following the writing off of the vehicle. It becomes the first of the original Metro Cars to be scrapped, leaving just the 87 … Continue reading →

We’ve reported many, many times over the past few months about changes introduced in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, ranging from reduced services to social distancing but behind the scenes other changes have also been introduced to try and make … Continue reading →

The new Tyne and Wear Metro depot at South Gosforth – replacing the current structure – is to be built by VolkerFitzpatrick following their appointment by Stadler to construct the £70 million facility to accommodate the state of the art … Continue reading →

2020 was due to see celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the Tyne and Wear Metro which opened in 1980 but as with so much this year those celebrations are likely to be much lower key than planned. But one … Continue reading →

It would appear that not only are more businesses starting to reopen but cable thieves are also back out in force as major disruption on the Tyne and Wear Metro network has been put down to a cable theft in … Continue reading →

After a week of disruption Tyne and Wear Metro services are now running through to South Hylton again after Network Rail engineers repaired some of the overhead line damage. However, a reduced frequency will be running for the next “few … Continue reading →

At the weekend we reported on the £29 million worth of funding for light rail in England and it has now been confirmed by Nexus that the Tyne and Wear Metro has been awarded £7.6 million of this financial support … Continue reading →

Services to South Hylton on the Tyne and Wear Metro have been suspended since Friday 22nd May after a freight train brought the overhead wires down in the Sunderland area. Extensive damage was caused with Network Rail engineers on site … Continue reading →

The current global Coronavirus pandemic is already causing issues to transport across the world as fewer people travel with various restrictions in place and it is likely that this will continue to be an issue for some time as people’s … Continue reading →

It was the first network to reduce its service frequency and now the Tyne and Wear Metro is set to be the first to return to something closely resembling a normal timetable. From Monday 18th May the daytime service frequency … Continue reading →