Tyne and Wear Metro - St James to South Shields - Stop at Monument twice?

[Comfy]

Does this train stop twice at monument on its route?
Thanks

 

[jp4712]

Yes, it does - but at different levels of the station.

 

[hacman]

It does.

Monument station has 4 platforms, with 1 and 2 serving the green and yellow routes in the north/south direction, and 3 and 4 serving the yellow route only in the east/west direction.

 

[Comfy]

OK thanks

 

[adrock1976]

It does.

Monument station has 4 platforms, with 1 and 2 serving the green and yellow routes in the north/south direction, and 3 and 4 serving the yellow route only in the east/west direction.

Am I right in thinking that there also used to be a red route and blue route that involved workings from Pelaw to Longbenton and St James to the vicinity of Wallsend/Tynemouth?

 

[swt_passenger]

Am I right in thinking that there also used to be a red route and blue route that involved workings from Pelaw to Longbenton and St James to the vicinity of Wallsend/Tynemouth?

Yes. IIRC at Pelaw they made use of the present reversing/stabling sidings, at Benton trains reversed on sidings on the old curve towards the north ECML, and at North Shields they used the existing (but normally unused) bay platform.

Please see post #7 in the recent “express Metro” thread, it has a timetable extract showing the four colours, the expresses were red line services started at the coast:

Did the Tyne & Wear Metro ever run expresses?

Came across this photo on Facebook - did metro ever used to run expresses? My initial thought was it might have related to the peak extras, but those aren’t really expresses since they stop everywhere.

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