Metro passengers in South Tyneside will have to wait even longer to see trains return to their stations, after an overrunning upgrade project was hit by another setback.
The reopening of the Tyne and Wear Metro line between Pelaw and South Shields has been delayed again, transport bosses confirmed on Friday afternoon. It is three months since the route was shut down, the longest and biggest closure in the Metro’s 42-year history, for £104m improvement works that will increase its capacity.
Services had been due to resume on December 4, before being pushed back to a target date of December 12 while engineers completed final tests on the upgraded section of the network. But Metro operator Nexus has now revealed that the work on the ‘Flow’ project will still not be done in time, with the return of trains to and from South Shields now pencilled in for next Wednesday, December 14.
