Tyne and Wear Metro on a Rail Ticket

[BlueFox]

I have a day return ticket from Hexham to Sunderland.

I know for the Newcastle to Sunderland part of the journey, the ticket is valid on the Metro as well as Northern rail services.

If I use the metro, can I stop the journey short at St Peters?

Or is that not allowed as St Peters is a metro only station?

 

[bb21]

I do not believe that stopping short is permitted. Interavailability only applies for travel between Newcastle, Heworth and Sunderland stations and not intermediately AFAIK.

That said, I have not seen any publicity which explicitly states so, nevertheless I don't travel often in Tyne & Wear so I might have missed it.

 

[yorkie]

Perhaps it would be best to email/tweet Nexus to ask them?

Tickets are inter-available on that section (and I've always had North East Rovers accepted) however inter-availability usually only applies at stations which National Rail services call at.

If the answer is no, then the workaround is to get a Hexham to Newcastle ticket, and a metro ticket from Newcastle to Sunderland (which would, of course, equally be valid on Northern services as well).

So I would assume the official answer to be no until you can determine otherwise.

 

[bb21]

There is no Railcard discount on the Metro fare so a Railcard-holder can lose out by a fair bit that way.

 

[tractakid]

There are through tickets available to Metro stations, arent there?

 

[Anvil1984]

I'd say it was valid, there're Hexham to Seaburn tickets available for same price as Hexham to Sunderland and I'm sure there's no prohibition on passengers alighting early.

There is a Hexham to Tyne and Wear Metro tickets available if you want to be sure and excess the fare for 30p more though

 

[Tommy91125]

As a rail ticket, you can't get of at T&W M owned stations, but you can get off at Newcastle, Heworth and Sunderland ( <== on the Metro and train).

 

[Romilly]

There is a Hexham to Tyne and Wear Metro tickets available if you want to be sure and excess the fare for 30p more though

And early on a weekday morning, the Anytime Day Return from Hexham to Tyne & Wear Metro is actually 20p cheaper than the Anytime Day Return from Hexham to Sunderland