Kim and Nexus are pushing the Metro to Washington project again over the last couple of days. The Nexus website has a new and updated project page for it: https://nexus.org.uk/who-we-are/projects...ashington/

It has a timeline of what has been taking place up until now, but the key take is that a second round of engagement sessions across Washington and Sunderland will take place during September, which will also coincide with the public announcement of where the proposed station locations and route will be.

Date Time Venue
Tuesday 1 September 4pm – 6pm Washington Millennium Centre, Concord
Saturday 5 September 1.30pm – 4pm Washington Arts Centre, Biddick Lane
Monday 7 September 12.30pm – 4.30pm Fitzgeralds Wardley
Wednesday 9 September 1.30pm – 4pm Tansy Centre, South Hylton
Friday 11 September 12.30pm – 4.30pm Teal Farm Pub, Washington
Saturday 12 September 11am – 2pm North East Land, Sea, Air Museum, Washington
Tuesday 15 September 5.30pm – 7pm Sunderland College, City Campus
Wednesday 16 September 10am – 1pm Washington Arts Centre, Biddick Lane
Saturday 19 September 10.30am – 1.30pm The Galleries, Washington
Tuesday 22 September 5.30pm – 7pm Columbia Village Community Centre, Washington
Wednesday 23 September 10am – 12pm Tansy Centre, South Hylton
Friday 25 September 8.30am – 10.30am Pelaw Metro Station
Friday 25 September 5pm – 7pm Pelaw Metro Station
Saturday 26 September 10.30am – 1.30pm The Bridges Shopping Centre, Sunderland

Are the station locations not public knowledge yet?

(14 Aug 2026, 7:14 pm)idiot wrote Are the station locations not public knowledge yet?

You can probably work them out quite close to where they're going to be looking at what's been announced for the 3 stations. 
Speculating, I reckon around Pattinson Road, Washington Road, and Follingsby Lane. Just depends on the space available for them.

(Yesterday, 2:45 pm)deanmachine wrote You can probably work them out quite close to where they're going to be looking at what's been announced for the 3 stations. 
Speculating, I reckon around Pattinson Road, Washington Road, and Follingsby Lane. Just depends on the space available for them.

I think the only one that is perhaps set in stone is Washington North, as we know Nexus own a pocket of land around there. 

There's an EIA scoping request in to planning at the moment for 485 homes next to where the proposed station would be. See 26/00263/SCO on the Sunderland Planning Portal. This appears to form part of something I was accidentally sent in 2023, which included up to 1500 homes, but notably an outline of Nexus land at the bottom for a Park and Ride, Station and some shops. Roughly here:



As you say, the others are likely to be around Pattinson Road and Follingsby Lane. The latter probably has more options than the former, with the easiest option perhaps being to use the former station site roughly behind Swan. A better option, if suitable, would be this:



My rationale here is that I feel opening it up to this side of Fatfield is actually serving a larger catchment area. It'd be relatively simple to route a bus round Shepherd Way without altering the roads, you'd have a limited space for a car park, and it'd be relatively easy to build the local mini bus network around that and Washington North. The Swan site is a nightmare for parking during the day with all the businesses, there's limited space, and I think the closest you'd get is a mini bus around Barmston Court.

(Yesterday, 5:51 pm)Adrian wrote My rationale here is that I feel opening it up to this side of Fatfield is actually serving a larger catchment area. It'd be relatively simple to route a bus round Shepherd Way without altering the roads, you'd have a limited space for a car park, and it'd be relatively easy to build the local mini bus network around that and Washington North. The Swan site is a nightmare for parking during the day with all the businesses, there's limited space, and I think the closest you'd get is a mini bus around Barmston Court.

Even known I can see the reasons, it'll be at the end of Station Road imo. 

Stations on curves are pretty much no go these days, unless you can get some form of deregulation. It's one of the reasons both Seaton Delaval and Newsham were both moved from the their original sites.

I agree with putting it at Fatfield, I wonder if you could flatten the curve somewhat for a station long enough for a Class 555? Right next to a housing estate, still easy access to the industrial areas, and all you'd have to do is reroute the 4 along Shepherd Way.

It's barely a curve at the point the station could sit, and the guidance is requiring justification. The other site being relatively prohibitive due to what's around it should be enough.

(14 Aug 2026, 1:30 pm)Adrian wrote Kim and Nexus are pushing the Metro to Washington project again over the last couple of days. The Nexus website has a new and updated project page for it: https://nexus.org.uk/who-we-are/projects...ashington/

It has a timeline of what has been taking place up until now, but the key take is that a second round of engagement sessions across Washington and Sunderland will take place during September, which will also coincide with the public announcement of where the proposed station locations and route will be.

I dont know if its just me but do we need this or not

It just seems like the money could go be spent on better especially since theres talks of the franchise 

Like this has been an extreme hot topic but im unsure if it'll work or even go ahead. Prices rise every single day and this project will probably become to expensive and be Curtailed or cancelled all together 

Kim seems to be doing to much at once and doesn't seem to be getting the best press with her constantly talking about the buses now. Yet nothing seems to be going ahead. Her mayor fares killed the coast road agreement and says she "cut metro fares cause people were asked" with the slime line then saying "with a pop pay as you go"

Yeah i cant see this happening even if it does. We will see cuts left right & center and possibly even it Curtailed

(3 hours ago)Nerd4321 wrote I dont know if its just me but do we need this or not

It just seems like the money could go be spent on better especially since theres talks of the franchise 

Like this has been an extreme hot topic but im unsure if it'll work or even go ahead. Prices rise every single day and this project will probably become to expensive and be Curtailed or cancelled all together 

Kim seems to be doing to much at once and doesn't seem to be getting the best press with her constantly talking about the buses now. Yet nothing seems to be going ahead. Her mayor fares killed the coast road agreement and says she "cut metro fares cause people were asked" with the slime line then saying "with a pop pay as you go"

Yeah i cant see this happening even if it does. We will see cuts left right & center and possibly even it Curtailed

Buses have to have the Mayor's social media focus at the moment, it's in a statutory consultation period, and they don't get a second round of this if people don't bother first time round. Quite rightly she'll want as much participation as possible.

The thing about need is that it's subjective. It depends on where you live and then your individual circumstances. If you ask people in Washington, they'll tell you it's absolutely needed, whilst I'm sure people in the West End of Newcastle would prefer the money spent there, Northumberland on A1 dualling, and so on. That being said, I'd genuinely welcome your thoughts on why people in Washington shouldn't need this?

On the Coast Road, I don't think you could be further from the point. It wasn't the mayors fares that have killed it, it's greed. 

The Coast Road has, for a long time now, been one of the most profitable corridors on the network. The agreement was signed when perhaps different attitudes to partnership were around the table, as oppose to the current lot, where the interest is lining their own pockets. You would see how fast the attitude would change, if the BSIP for example funded additional X12s along Low Fell.

(3 hours ago)Nerd4321 wrote I dont know if its just me but do we need this or not

It just seems like the money could go be spent on better especially since theres talks of the franchise 

Like this has been an extreme hot topic but im unsure if it'll work or even go ahead. Prices rise every single day and this project will probably become to expensive and be Curtailed or cancelled all together 

Kim seems to be doing to much at once and doesn't seem to be getting the best press with her constantly talking about the buses now. Yet nothing seems to be going ahead. Her mayor fares killed the coast road agreement and says she "cut metro fares cause people were asked" with the slime line then saying "with a pop pay as you go"

Yeah i cant see this happening even if it does. We will see cuts left right & center and possibly even it Curtailed

tbf the links to Washington are pretty badly needed and everything between Pelaw and Washington South imo makes sense and I don't think anyone can really complain about it.

It turns a grey area though whether it should head to Sunderland or continue heading South to Penshaw / Shiney Row / Fencehouses though which seems like it would be much cheaper and give more people who have poor transport links to the main city especially considering there hasn't been a railway link between the Victoria Viaduct and South Hylton for over 50 year. 

Build that right and Penshaw could be a very powerful interchange to pretty much everywhere round there since everything hits it give or take ie. 2/4/37/78/79/X1. Sadly the current plans just miss it completely.

The North East parocial issues will kick in there though.