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Mystery shoppers give thumbs up to East Gateshead buses
A ‘mystery shopper’ survey of bus services in East Gateshead has found a high standard of vehicle quality, facilities and information. The survey found that 100% of buses in the area were low floor ‘easy access’ vehicles and all of them had on-board CCTV cameras. The buses also scored highly for on…
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Bloom time at Tynemouth Station.
A unique Victorian railway station is set to blossom thanks to a community art project, which will rely on the bygone use of pinhole photography.  Work began last year to make safe certain sections of historic Tynemouth station's unrestored glass canopy. Now 14 hoardings that surround the…
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Mystery shoppers give thumbs up to East Gateshead buses
A ‘mystery shopper’ survey of bus services in East Gateshead has found a high standard of vehicle quality, facilities and information. The survey found that 100% of buses in the area were low floor ‘easy access’ vehicles and all of them had on-board CCTV cameras. The buses also scored highly for on…
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Nexus extends Sunderland local bus service.
A local bus service launched by Nexus in Sunderland is doing so well the route is to be extended. Nexus started the 8X between South Hylton and Pennywell last year after a commercial operator withdrew its evening and Sunday service in the area. It is now being extended to take in the South Hylton…
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Children make a million more journeys by bus and Metro.
Children under 16 have made almost a million extra journeys on bus and Metro in Tyne and Wear since a new simpler fare was introduced last September. The Tyne and Wear Integrated Transport Authority and Nexus introduced the subsidised ‘Cat’ £1 Child Allday Ticket and 50p single at all times to make…
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Public art you can see from Space.
Opening Line by Danny Lane was commissioned by Nexus and completed in 2004 to mark the £7 million modernisation of the interchange, used by four million passengers a year. It consists of a long thin line of laser-cut steel and etched glass cut into a series of large ‘picture stories’. And the…
Artist, Esme Fletcher with her artwork at Park Lane.
Sunderland student sees her art on Metro.
A Sunderland student has found an audience of thousands for her art after it was displayed on the city’s Metro system. Esme Fletcher, 20, who is from Grangetown in Sunderland and a second year student at Sunderland University, approached Nexus to ask if she could display work on poster sites as…
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Metro increases train services to South Hylton in Sunderland
Metro is increasing the number of trains it operates to South Hylton in Sunderland as it seeks to build on another record-breaking year of passenger growth. In the last year Metro has seen passenger numbers pass the 40 million mark – the highest level since the early 1990s – and it is hoped that…

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