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RE: Tyne and Wear Metro - wirralbus - 22/04/2014 18:42
The man who oversaw the construction and opening of the Tyne and Wear Metro has died at the age of 88.
Desmond Fletcher, from Whitley Bay, was director general of the Tyne Wear Passenger Transport Executive (PTE) - now Nexus - from 1976 to 1983.
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro - St Helens Rider - 03/04/2017 13:38
Tyne & Wear Metro ‘renationalised’
https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2017/04/03-tyne--wear-metro-renationalised.html
Credit: Railnews.
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro - wirralbus - 06/04/2017 07:42
(03/04/2017 13:38)St Helens Rider Wrote: Tyne & Wear Metro ‘renationalised’
https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2017/04/03-tyne--wear-metro-renationalised.html
Credit: Railnews.
Hasnt the Authority up there been trying to take everything in house including the local buses .
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro - childwallblues - 25/11/2017 07:01
In this weeks budget the Government announced a £337 million grant to Nexus to enable them to replace the existing 90 x 2 section car units built by Metro Cammell between 1978 and 1981. No further details are yet available.