{"id":45887,"date":"2022-07-25T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45887"},"modified":"2022-07-23T21:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T20:36:22","slug":"out-and-about-tyne-and-wear-metro-at-tynemouth-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45887","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: Tyne and Wear Metro at Tynemouth Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst we consider the Tyne and Wear Metro to be a relatively modern system (if you can still call the early 1980s as modern!) a lot of the infrastructure \u2013 particularly at stations \u2013 is of a much older vintage, such as the station at Tynemouth. And that\u2019s where we head for today\u2019s edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45888\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=45888\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45888\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45888\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.4016-rc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.4016-rc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.4016-rc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.4016-rc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.4016-rc.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tynemouth Station originally opened in 1882 and 98 years later the Metro arrived and started to serve the impressive station. In this first photo we see 4016 on the rear of a St James to South Shields service via The Coast.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_45889\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=45889\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45889\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45889\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.4004-rc-550x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.4004-rc-550x442.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.4004-rc-1024x822.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.4004-rc-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.4004-rc.jpg 1298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then we see 4004 leading another four car formation with a service from South Shields to St James via The Coast. (Both Photographs by Roy Calderwood, 11th May 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst we consider the Tyne and Wear Metro to be a relatively modern system (if you can still call the early 1980s as modern!) a lot of the infrastructure \u2013 particularly at stations \u2013 is of a much older vintage, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45890,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887\/revisions\/45890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}