(02 Dec 2013, 10:05 pm)BJ10VUS wrote The Wellington Street, Gateshead bridgeworks have, as you will be aware, now over-run, by a considerable number of weeks.

Following dialogue with Gateshead Council, we have now been advised that these works will be removed by Friday 20th December 2013 and will not be reinstated after the Christmas and New Year period.

Consequently, all services operating between Gateshead and Newcastle will return to normal route via Hills Street as soon as the bridge works have been removed.

Typical Network Rail contract over-run , remember how many times they put back the completion date when they closed the High Level Bridge. Network Rail seem to under estimate the scope of work on these jobs allowing their contractors to apply multiple variation orders resulting in the schemes failing on time and budget delivery.