The first of the new Tyne and Wear Metro trains will be late arriving in the North East.
Transport chiefs have revealed a setback in the delivery of the first train in the Metro’s hotly-anticipated £362m fleet. It had been due to arrive in the region early in December, but that has been pushed back into the new year.
The delay to January 2023 has been blamed on a “busy period” for pre-Christmas engineering works that makes it harder for the train to get across Europe and the UK’s rail network. Metro operator Nexus told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that the hold-up is not expected to affect the time when the train will be brought into passenger service, which remains for now as autumn 2023.
