{"id":60682,"date":"2025-11-03T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60682"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:52:01","slug":"two-more-tyne-and-wear-metro-scrappings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60682","title":{"rendered":"Two more Tyne and Wear Metro scrappings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been two further scrapping of Tyne and Wear Metro units since our last update as <strong>4011<\/strong> and <strong>4066<\/strong> have headed off on one final journey.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>4011<\/strong> was the first to make the journey on 17<sup>th<\/sup> October 2025 and it was quickly followed by <strong>4066<\/strong> on 21<sup>st<\/sup> October 2025. Both went the usual way \u2013 moved to Howdon for their last journey on the rails and then loaded onto a lorry there (for 4066 that saw it move under its own power onto the trailer!) for the trip to J Denham Metals where the scrapping takes place.<\/p>\n<p>40 of the original 90 Metrocars have now been sent for scrap whilst <strong>4001<\/strong> has gone into preservation at the Stephenson Steam Railway and <strong>4019<\/strong> moved to the Tyne and Wear Fire Service training centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been two further scrapping of Tyne and Wear Metro units since our last update as 4011 and 4066 have headed off on one final journey.<\/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\/60682"}],"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=60682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60683,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60682\/revisions\/60683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}