Nexus, which owns, manages and is modernising Metro, is carrying out a series of essential modernisation projects on the Metro system over the forthcoming August Bank Holiday weekend.
The work is being packed into the weekend in order to minimise disruption to passengers and to allow Nexus to do a wide range of essential upgrades.
It forms part of the ongoing £385m Metro: all change modernisation programme, which will see the system transformed over the next 11 years, including new-look stations, refurbished trains and new tracks.
The modernisation work Nexus is carrying out this weekend includes the installation of new tracks at the Metro Fleet Depot in South Gosforth in Newcastle.
Special equipment will also be used to clear away trackside vegetation and install new cables and overhead lines.
Director of Rail and Infrastructure for Nexus, Ken Mackay, said: “We are packing in a lot of work this weekend, much of it part of the ongoing £385m modernisation of the Metro system.
“We are doing as much as we can at weekends in order to keep the level of passenger disruption to an absolute minimum.
“These upgrades to the Metro network are absolutely vital for securing its long term future.”
The Nexus works means there will be no Metro service between South Gosforth and Monkseaton on Saturday and Sunday. A replacement bus service, 900, will be in operation.
Trains will be running to all destinations on Bank Holiday Monday, August 29.
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