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During the construction of the line, a dedicated bus service operated between Bank Foot and Newcastle International Airport. [4] The extension and station opened on 17 November 1991, at a cost of £12 million. The new station at the airport had a pyramid design, and was linked to both platforms and the main airport terminal by covered walkways.
The West of England LEP's Option Development Report, published in 2016, outlined various possible routes for the new railway line: [12] A direct link to the airport from Bristol Temple Meads railway station, branching from the Bristol to Exeter line from Long Ashton, was considered to be a "fully segregated high quality link to the airport, which should provide short journey times" with "good ...
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 North-East/South-West route (sometimes simply The Cross-Country Route) is the major British rail route running from South West England or Cardiff via Bristol, Birmingham, Derby and Sheffield to North-East England and Scotland. It includes some of the longest inter-city rail journeys in the UK, e.g. Penzance to Aberdeen.
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]
Rail usage in the West of England doubled in the ten years between 1999 and 2009. [9] A campaign for a Greater Bristol Metro was launched in February 2012, [7] with plans prepared by engineering consultancy Halcrow Group. [10] [11] The scheme was estimated to cost £22 million at 2008/09 prices and could be completed between 2016 and 2021. [6]
Luton Airport Parkway railway station has since been built closer to the airport. From 1967, Thames Valley Traction, [3] (later Alder Valley [4]), operated a Railair Link coach between Heathrow and Reading station in a yellow striped livery as route X25, [5] and later in National Bus Company coach livery. [3]
Part of the route operates as a tram-train [2] [7] Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland: Tyne and Wear Metro: 30.7 77 km (48 mi) 60 2 Electric 11 August 1980 [2] Light rail West Midlands (Birmingham–Wolverhampton) West Midlands Metro: 8.3 23 km (14 mi) 31 1 Electric 30 May 1999 2/3 lines under construction. [8]