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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]
Ticket for the Tyne and Wear Metro from 2012. The Tyne and Wear Metro has a simple fare structure, with the network being split into three zones (A, B and C, with an additional zone D for Northumberland Line services operated on the National Rail network). Tickets are offered as single, day, week, four-weekly and annual. [40] [41]
The British Rail Class 555 Metro is a class of electric multiple units, commissioned and built for the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive (Nexus) by the Swiss company Stadler Rail, at a total cost of £362 million, for use on the Tyne and Wear Metro.
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 ...
All Tyne & Wear Metro services. Northern services between Newcastle and Sunderland via Heworth. Northern services between Newcastle and Blaydon via MetroCentre. A rail journey counts as a single 'leg', even if it involves a change between Metro lines or between Metro and Northern Rail services.
The Metro fleet was initially painted in a two-tone livery of cadmium yellow and white that matched the Metro station design and the livery of the Tyne and Wear bus fleet until 1986. In 1995, a new colour scheme was introduced - solid red, green or blue with a yellow wedge at each end and yellow triangles on the doors. [12]
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. ...
The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive, branded as Nexus, is an executive body of the North East Combined Authority and is best known for owning and operating the Tyne and Wear Metro. It replaced the Tyneside PTE on 1 April 1974.