(Yesterday, 11:49 pm)solsburian wrote We are probably an echo chamber on many thnigs. Electrification to the Metrocentre would be a quick way to justify EMUs and decarbonisation of that part of the line. if Nexus (who should our non-present dear comrade should have abolished now with a wider transport authority [with new compliant management]) had got a grip of, as far as Blaydon. When the Nexus Forums we a thing (and hindsight a very brave thing), one idea they suggested was closing Dunston station. I pointed out that that it would look quite bad from a PR perspective when they wanted to introduce a Quality Contracts Scheme for busses that it did not reflect well on them.
 
For Washington, I agree with getting the Metro there, as a loop, I would suggest focus should be linking the Sunderland Line to the Yellow Line at Brockley Whins. For the next infill reopening of the Northumberland line, I am biased of course.