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The first new Tyne and Wear Metro train had to be taken out of service after a technical failure. It was withdrawn in South Gosforth at about 08:00 GMT and had to be "reset" to resolve the fault.
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Network diagram of the Tyne and Wear Metro. The Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rail network linking South Tyneside and Sunderland with Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Newcastle Airport. The network opened in stages from 11 August 1980, and now serves 60 stations and 48 miles (77 km) of track.
The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system [4] [5] [6] serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland (together forming Tyne and Wear). The owners Nexus have described it as "Britain’s first light rapid transit system". [7]
In February 2023, eight Metro drivers attended initial training on the new units on the 4-kilometre (2.5-mile) Velim test track. [12] The first of the 46 units, costing £362 million, arrived in Tyneside on 28 February 2023, and will undergo compatibility testing across the network before entering into service in the Autumn. [ 13 ]
The Tyne and Wear Metro is a rapid transit system in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
This list does not include Fawdon, Bank Foot, and Regent Centre, which are located on the sites of the former Coxlodge, Kenton, and West Gosforth stations on what was once the Ponteland Railway, but which closed to passenger traffic in 1929; Pelaw, which was added to the Metro in 1985, and which is sited to the south of the former station of ...