{"id":56779,"date":"2025-01-01T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56779"},"modified":"2025-01-01T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T15:52:18","slug":"full-metro-service-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56779","title":{"rendered":"Full Metro service resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyne and Wear Metro services via Gateshead resumed on Tuesday 31<sup>st<\/sup> December 2024 following strengthening works on the Gateshead flyover by Gateshead Council.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As you will recall, in the lead up to Christmas a safety inspection of the flyover led to the Council making the decision to close it t all traffic. Whilst, Metro trains don\u2019t run on the flyover the tunnels they do run through are immediately below this and although initially services ran at a reduced speed it was decided \u2013 again for safety reasons \u2013 that all services should be suspended.<\/p>\n<p>That meant that from 19<sup>th<\/sup> December 2024 services were running in two halves. North of the River Tyne was fine with services travelling from Monument to Airport and Monument to St James via the North Tyneside coast. However, south of the river \u2013 where there are no maintenance facilities \u2013 a reduced frequency service only could run between Heworth and South Shields\/South Hylton.<\/p>\n<p>This remained in place until New Year\u2019s Eve when trains started running through central Newcastle and Gateshead again, albeit at a reduced frequency. No services run on New Year\u2019s Day with a full service set to resume again from Thursday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Cathy Massarella, Managing Director of Nexus, said (on 30<sup>th<\/sup> December): \u201cGateshead Council have successfully completed strengthening works on the Gateshead flyover, to prop a pillar directly over the Metro tunnels.\u00a0 Our infrastructure and operations teams are currently finishing tunnel inspections to make sure trains can safely run through them again and moving our trains to where they need to be.\u00a0Thank you to our customers for their patience and understanding during this ongoing period of disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyne and Wear Metro services via Gateshead resumed on Tuesday 31st December 2024 following strengthening works on the Gateshead flyover by Gateshead Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56779"}],"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=56779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56780,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56779\/revisions\/56780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}