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Great North Snowdogs take over Metro
19 September 2016

The Metro system is to play a key part in Tyne and Wear’s biggest ever mass participation public art event – Great North Snowdogs. The colourful Snowdog trail will see 61 individually designed Snowdog sculptures displayed in local parks and open spaces - and almost all are in easy reach of a Metro...
New tracks for Metro's iconic city centre tunnels
14 September 2016

Nexus, the public body which owns and manages the Tyne and Wear Metro, is investing £3m in new tracks for the iconic Metro tunnels that run deep beneath the streets of Newcastle city centre. Engineers are replacing a two kilometre stretch of track between Jesmond Metro station and the QEII Metro...
National Fraud Initiative 2016/17
12 September 2016

The Passenger Transport Executive (Nexus) is required by law to participate in the National Fraud Initiative’s data matching exercise to assist in the prevention and detection of fraud. This includes supplying data about concessionary travel pass holders to the Cabinet Office. If you have any...
Extra Metro services for the Great North Run
9 September 2016

Extra Metro services will be in operation for Sunday’s Great North Run - and runners and spectators are being advised to allow extra time for their journeys and to buy tickets in advance. There will be additional Metro services will be running until around 7pm, when the timetable returns to normal...
Metro's underground air vent gains listed status
8 September 2016

An air vent for the Tyne and Wear Metro’s tunnels beneath Newcastle has been listed by Historic England as an important piece of post-war public art. Parson’s Polygon is a unique terracotta obelisk designed by artist David Hamilton to stand in one of Newcastle city centre’s busiest streets. The 3.5...
The Shields Ferry gears up for the Great North Run
2 September 2016

The Shields Ferry service is gearing up for the Great North Run, its busiest day of the year, where it expects to carry 10,000 passengers over the day. Both ferries will be operating on the day of the Great North Run, Sunday 11 September, in order to clear the huge volume of runners and spectators...
Stroke survivors team up with Metro to help others
30 August 2016

A group of stroke survivors from South Tyneside have unveiled a project to help other people like them to get around and explore the area as part of their rehabilitation programme. The project has involved the creation of a special walking route and map, starting from Jarrow Metro station. The easy...
Shields Ferry to host a busking festival on board
24 August 2016

Shields Ferry passengers will be entertained by buskers on their Tyne crossings this Bank Holiday weekend. A busker’s pitch will be erected on board the ferry on Saturday August 27, 12pm-6pm, and a host of musicians will be giving live performances. The Crossing the Tyne Festival has been organised...
Your chance to enter Metro's short story competition
23 August 2016

Metro customers are being encouraged to use their daily commute as inspiration for a new short story competition. Tyne and Wear Metro has teamed up with New Writing North to challenge writers, both aspiring and established, to pen a 250-word short story. The story should be based around the theme ‘...
Pop Pay As You Go arrives on Go North East buses
22 August 2016

Customers of the region’s largest bus operator, Go North East, can now use the Pop Pay As You Go payment card on their buses right across the region. The Pop card is a way of paying for public transport and allows customers to use just one card to pay for journeys on public transport in North East...