Tyne and Wear Metro

Tyne and Wear Metro is a rapid transit system in Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Sunderland.

Tyne and Wear Metro
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Info
Owner	Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive (Nexus)
Locale	Tyne and Wear
Transit type	Light rail Rapid transit
Number of lines	2
Number of stations	60
Headquarters	Station Road Gosforth Newcastle upon Tyne
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Operation
Began operation	11 August 1980 (1980-08-11)
Operator(s)	Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive (Nexus)
Number of vehicles	87 Tyne and Wear Metrocars
Train length	27.81 m (91 ft 3 in)
Technical
System length	77.5 km (48.2 mi)
Track gauge
Electrification	1,500 Volt DC overhead lines
Top speed	80 km/h (50 mph)

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It opened in stages from August 1980 and now has 60 stations, with two lines covering 77.5 km (48.2 mi) of track. It was mostly made from converted former railway lines linked with some new tunnels.

Tyne And Wear Metro Media

• South Tyneside Electric train at Newcastle Central, 1938, geograph-4869768-by-Walter-Dendy,-deceased.jpg

  A South Tyneside NER electric unit at Newcastle Central station, 1938

• This photograph shows a completed view of the Byker Viaduct in the summer of 1979. (8691414027).jpg

  The Byker Viaduct was the first in Britain to be built using cantilevered concrete sections with joints glued with epoxy resin.

• Callerton Parkway station (geograph 6248097).jpg

  Callerton Parkway Metro station

• Simonside Metro station.jpg

  Simonside Metro station

• Tyne & Wear Metro Train at Newcastle Airport Station (geograph 5893096).jpg

  Post-refurbishment Tyne and Wear Metrocar

• Geographically Accurate Map of the Tyne and Wear Metro.svg

  Geographically accurate map of the Tyne and Wear Metro

• Metrocar 4023, Tyne and Wear Metro depot open day, 8 August 2010 (1).jpg

  The interior of South Gosforth TMD in 2010

• BR Class 555 St. Margrethen.jpg

  A new Class 555 unit on pre-delivery testing in Switzerland, October 2024

• TWM tunnels.png

  A map of the network in Newcastle and Gateshead. Metro routes are shown in red, with dotted red lines displaying tunnel sections.

• Tyne&Wear Metrotrain on level crossing.jpg

  Level crossing near Kingston Park station