The Tyne & Wear Metro is to close the literal heart of its network for 2 weeks for to replace 18,000m of over head line wire.
The line will be closed between Heworth-Four Lane Ends/Regent Centre.
They only announced this fairly recently so I wonder if common sense has prevailed and doing this work in a lockdown creates less disruption. We'll see fewer future closures of the network from power failures (which seems to occur at Jesmond and around Gateshead Stadium a lot from the top of my head)
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The line will be closed between Heworth-Four Lane Ends/Regent Centre.
They only announced this fairly recently so I wonder if common sense has prevailed and doing this work in a lockdown creates less disruption. We'll see fewer future closures of the network from power failures (which seems to occur at Jesmond and around Gateshead Stadium a lot from the top of my head)
Major line closure on Metro for 14 days in February | nexus.org.uk
A major programme of modernisation work will close the Tyne and Wear Metro’s busiest lines through the centres of Newcastle and Gateshead for two consecutive weeks next month. Nexus, the public body which owns and manages Metro, needs to replace essential overhead power lines as part of a £30m...
www.nexus.org.uk
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