MPs from across the political divide have made their case for the Government to fund an extension to the Tyne-Wear Metro which would connect Washington with Newcastle and Sunderland.
Washington is said to be the fourth largest town in the UK without a rail link. But the project to create the Washington Metro Loop will cost £745m, at a time when the Government is indicating it will cut public spending.
The Metro extension scheme, which forms part of a wider plan to reopen the Leamside Line connecting County Durham to Gateshead, does have support from Government MPs, including Conservative MP for Sedgefield, Paul Howell.
