{"id":64961,"date":"2026-10-13T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64961"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:36:59","slug":"555-022-completes-the-set-of-tyne-and-wear-metro-trains-in-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64961","title":{"rendered":"555 022 completes the set of Tyne and Wear Metro trains in service!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>555 022<\/strong> has become the 46<sup>th<\/sup> and final of the Stadler built trains for the Tyne and Wear Metro network to enter service \u2013 although it was only used briefly on its first day with it being withdrawn from use with a door fault.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>555 022<\/strong> has been in northeast England since 20<sup>th<\/sup> February 2026 when it arrived as part of the final trio of deliveries. It came with <strong>555 029<\/strong> (entered service 18<sup>th<\/sup> June 2026) and <strong>555 046<\/strong> (entered service 14<sup>th<\/sup> September 2026).<\/p>\n<p>As part of the commissioning process it has gone through mileage accumulation across the network and with this having been completed it was cleared for an entry into service, which duly happened on 13<sup>th<\/sup> October 2026.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>555 022<\/strong>\u2019s entry into service it completes the process of trains carrying passengers which commenced with <strong>555 021<\/strong> on 18<sup>th<\/sup> December 2024, some 22 months ago (or 665 days!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>555 022 has become the 46th and final of the Stadler built trains for the Tyne and Wear Metro network to enter service \u2013 although it was only used briefly on its first day with it being withdrawn from use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64961\">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":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64961"}],"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=64961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64962,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64961\/revisions\/64962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}