Tyne and Wear Metro’s Sunderland line is marking its 20 th anniversary today, having carried 138 million customer journeys since it first opened to the public two decades ago.
Nexus, which owns and manages Metro, said the line was a huge success story for Sunderland, and one which has provided a vital strategic link into the heart of the city. The £100m line was opened on March 31, 2002. It was then officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen in a ceremony at Park Lane Interchange on May 7 that same year.
The £100m project to construct the new line began in the summer of 2000. It branched off from the original Metro tracks at Pelaw in South Tyneside before continuing down through Sunderland city centre and on to the terminus station of South Hylton.
