Date: 17/12/2015

Nexus has awarded TXM Rail a four-year renewal and upgrade framework contract for the Tyne and Wear Metro.

TXM Rail, a division of TXM Plant, will provide permanent way, associated signalling and electrification and civils work with design works in support of a £389 million renewal of the network.

TXM Rail will open a depot in Newcastle upon Tyne to deliver the framework.

The director of rail and infrastructure for Nexus, Raymond Johnstone, said: We are now half way through our £389 million modernisation programme. [From Richard Buckby]

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