A busy Metro line serving Newcastle and North Tyneside is to close for two weeks next month for a major programme of modernisation works. This includes the complete renewal of Tanners Bank bridge which is 160 years old.
Tanners Bank bridge, located between Tynemouth and North Shields, is to be removed so that an entirely new bridge can go in its place. Nexus, the public body which owns and manages Metro, is putting in place a 14-day major line closure between St James and Tynemouth from July 16 to July 29.
The line closure will also allow Nexus to carry out a series of other major track and overhead line renewal projects along with vegetation clearance work along the full length of the line. There will also be an eight-week road closure from June 20 to August 12 during the modernisation works affecting access to the Fish Quay.
