Our Metro Flow project to upgrade the Tyne and Wear Metro route to South Shields has won another major rail industry award.
The £104m project has scooped outstanding engineering achievement at the Global Light Rail Awards in London.
It’s the second major award for Metro Flow in as many months after it was named Major Project of the Year at the National Rail Awards.
The project, which saw three key sections if track dualled on the Metro line to South Shields, will improve Metro reliability and pave the way for more frequent services across the network.
Interim Managing Director at Nexus, Cathy Massarella, said: “We’re absolutely delighted that our Metro Flow project has won a second major railway industry award.
“Winning at last week’s Global Light Rail Awards is yet another well deserved accolade for what was our biggest ever major line closure. It’s beaten off some strong competition to be named outstanding engineering achievement.
“It comes just a few weeks after the project was named the major project of the year at the National Rail Awards.
“Metro Flow and the new Metro Fleet between them represent an investment of almost £500m to build a better Metro for our customers. I know people want a more frequent and reliable service and projects like Metro Flow represent just one part of the hard work our whole team is doing to get there.”
When Metro’s new fleet is phased in it will allow the timetable to be improved and capacity for more passengers every day.
Metro Flow is the single largest project in the Government’s Transforming Cities Fund (TCF) programme and forms part of a £198m package of investment in sustainable transport across North East of England.Projects funded through the regional TCF programme also include new bus stations in Durham and North Shields, Sunderland railway station, intelligent traffic signals in cities, bus priority measures and active travel improvements.