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The Tyne and Wear Metro is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its extension to Newcastle Airport, a line which has carried 7.5 million customers over the last three decades. Nexus, the public body which owns and manages Metro, said the airport line was one of the more important projects in the history of the Metro service. The £12m scheme, opened on November 17, 1991, provides one of the fastest airport to city centre transfers in the country.
(Permalink) Newcastle Airport Tyne and Wear Metro Newcastle Airport: A Tyne & Wear Metro service recently arrived at Newcastle Airport on 10 May 2006. The train is already preparing to depart on its next journey destined for Sunderland's large Park Lane bus Interchange ... Newcastle Airport: Detail of Tyne & Wear Metro car 4027 on 23 October see image [[45085]]. Newcastle Airport: Metro unit 4027 in North Eastern Railway livery at Newcastle Airport on 23 October. |