(29 Oct 2023, 8:13 am)citaro5284 wrote I see a local Councillor in Holywell thinks Metro is too slow and is advising residents not to use it!!
Tyne and Wear Metro bosses dismiss call to run 'express' services to popular destinations
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...s-27999086
How would an express variation of the metro even work. Its not like the east coast main line or any network for that matter where the metro could just overtake it. Its like here's a scenario
Your at Sunderland and you have a T&W Day Rover or explore. You decide you want to go to Newcastle and you have two choices
The metro or the northern. Your mind says Northern cause it quicker but in reality its the metro for the fact is the metro is in front of the northern and the northern is just gonna get stopped by the metro. Its happened to me where I've boarded the northern cause I've just missed the metro and the northern has been held up.
An express variation of the metro wouldn't work as what would you call express. Say Airport to South Hylton. What's your stops gonna be like. In reality here's what it would probably be
Airport, Regent Centre, South Gosforth, Haymarket, Monument, Central, Gateshead, Heworth, Pelaw, Stadium of light (match days only) Sunderland, Park Lane, South Hylton. That's what I'd class as a express metro
Regent Centre, Haymarket, Monument, Central, Gateshead, Heworth, Sunderland, Park Lane for bus connections
Pelaw & South Gosforth for train changes and Heworth, Central & Sunderland for Northern & Mainline trains
St James to South Shields would be
St James, Monument, Wallsend, North Shields, Tynemouth, Cullercoats, Whitley Bay, Northumberland Park, Four Lane Ends, South Gosforth, Haymarket, Monument, Central, Gateshead, Heworth, Pelaw, Jarrow, South Shields
Same reason above for Wallsend, Haymarket, Four Lane Ends, North Shields, Haymarket, Monument, Gateshead, Pelaw, Heworth, Jarrow for buses and local rail connections
Northumberland Park for when the Northern line opens
Tynemouth Cullercoats & Whitley Bay for the Coast
Sorry this is such a long read