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The Tyne and Wear Metro Twitter page gets 24 hour cover
The Tyne and Wear Metro has increased the times that its official Twitter page is staffed, with 24 hour cover during the working week. Metro’s verified Twitter account, @My_Metro, which has 120,000 followers, is being staffed 24 hours a day from Monday to Friday, and from the beginning until the…
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Nexus scoops an award for improving the health of its workforce
Nexus, the public body which owns and manages the Tyne and Wear Metro, has scooped an award for a campaign to improve the health and wellbeing of its workforce. Nexus has secured a Silver award as part of the Better Health at Work Awards scheme which recognises the efforts of employers in the North…
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Customers wanted to appear in a Metro documentary for ITV
The producers of a new TV documentary series to be filmed in the North-East in 2019 want to hear from people who have extraordinary stories to tell of their lives on the Tyne and Wear Metro. Metropolis (working title) will follow the stories of the staff, the passengers and the communities whose…
Pop Blue card
More than a 250,000 journeys are made using a Pop blue smart card
Young people have made more than a quarter of a million journeys with a smartcard that gives them single trips on the Tyne and Wear Metro for £1. Pop blue was introduced by Nexus, the public body which owns and manages Metro, one year ago in order to make Metro travel more affordable for young…
New interchange site
New time-lapse video captures work on £21m transport interchange
New time-lapse video has captured the latest construction work on the £21m transport interchange in South Shields. The video shows the build from early demolition through to the present. Initially it shows foundations and the ground floor slab being cast followed by the steel structure being…
Ian Rossiter
Long serving Metro driver retires after 40 years of service
One of the first people to drive a train on the Tyne and Wear Metro has retired after 40 years of dedicated service. Ian Rossiter, 60, of High Heaton in Newcastle, was among the first ever batch of drivers to get behind the controls of the iconic Metro trains when they were brand new in the summer…
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Metro fares for 2019 include a price freeze for Pay As You Go customers
Metro fares in 2019 include a freeze in the cost of travel with a Pop Pay As You Go smartcard, while single, day, and season tickets will see a modest increase. The new fares came into effect from today, Wednesday 2 January. The cost of the Pop Pay As You Go smartcard has been frozen, offering…