Whitley Bay Metro station
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Whitley Bay is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the coastal town of Whitley Bay, North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 11 August 1980, following the opening of the first phase of the network, between Haymarket and Tynemouth via Four Lane Ends.
Whitley Bay Metro station
Tyne and Wear Metro
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The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland. It has been described as the "first modern light rail system in the United Kingdom". The system is currently both owned and operated by the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive (Nexus), thus is fully under public ownership and operation.
A Metrocar at Monument in 2015, branded in the current black and yellow colour scheme.
A South Tyneside NER electric unit at Newcastle Central station, 1938
The Byker Viaduct, built for the Metro, was the first such structure in Britain to be built using cantilevered concrete sections with joints glued with epoxy resin.
The escalator shaft at Haymarket, under construction in the late 1970s.