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Tyne and Wear Metro Replacement - DanPicken - 10 Oct 2013

Does anyone know about the strike and all the buses I know there was one in 2012 one in 2010 and one a few years before that and the before 2010 used a lot of stagecoach mpd's and alx's but still pages to do with it and any others


RE: Tyne and Wear Metro Replacement - tyresmoke - 16 Jan 2014

Next lot of Metro Replacements are fast approaching...

Sunday 9th February
Service 900 will run between Byker & North Shields

Saturday 15th February
Service 900 will run between Heworth & Jarrow
Service 901 will run between Heworth & South Hylton

Sunday 16th February
Service 900 will run between Heworth & South Shields
Service 901 will run between Heworth & South Hylton


RE: Tyne and Wear Metro Replacement - Andreos1 - 17 Jan 2014

(10 Oct 2013, 9:32 am)danpick wrote Does anyone know about the strike and all the buses I know there was one in 2012 one in 2010 and one a few years before that and the before 2010 used a lot of stagecoach mpd's and alx's but still pages to do with it and any others

Can remember a strike in the early 2000s.
I was working in the Gateshead area and heading to work early one morning, I was stuck in the car around Felling/High Heworth for far too long.
Not sure if there was a replacement bus service that time, due to the amount of traffic on the road.