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Tyne & Wear metro operator

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Operation of the Metro system was tendered and awarded to DB Regio Tyne & Wear, which took over from 1 April 2010. After seven years, Nexus to operation 'in house' again, initially for two years (i.e. to 31 March 2019). As I have heard nothing further about tendering/franchising/outsourcing or any other variant, is it safe to assume that Nexus still runs the Metro? Are there any plans to change the status quo?
 
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pdeaves said:
Operation of the Metro system was tendered and awarded to DB Regio Tyne & Wear, which took over from 1 April 2010. After seven years, Nexus to operation 'in house' again, initially for two years (i.e. to 31 March 2019). As I have heard nothing further about tendering/franchising/outsourcing or any other variant, is it safe to assume that Nexus still runs the Metro? Are there any plans to change the status quo?
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No, Metro is still operated by NEXUS. Some background here http://www.railtechnologymagazine.c...peration-of-tyne-and-wear-metro-from-db-regio

It's worth noting that during the original tendering process, the NEXUS in-house bid somehow managed to fail....
 
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Nexus would've bankrupted themselves if they won the tender!

I believe there are no intentions to put the network back out to tender. It'll be operated by Nexus until at least the new fleet is fully integrated.
 
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Nexus would've bankrupted themselves if they won the tender!

I believe there are no intentions to put the network back out to tender. It'll be operated by Nexus until at least the new fleet is fully integrated.
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Rumour has it that it is planned to go back out to tender in the next year or two.
 
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