Major line closure: Byker-North Shields | Nexus

A major line closure is required from Byker - North Shields, 16 - 21 Feb. More information online

Nexus, which owns and manages the Tyne and Wear Metro, is to carry out a six-day Major Line Closure in North Tyneside in February, as part of the £385m Metro: all change modernisation programme. The work is the last in a series of major line closures to replace 30-year-old Metro tracks and track beds between Byker and North Shields, following two previous closures last year and in 2011. Engineers will also complete a major project to demolish and replace the bridge over Carville Road in Wallsend, and strip out and replace a number of junctions that have carried hundreds of thousands of trains over three decades. The remaining stations on the line are also being refurbished with work at Wallsend, Hadrian Road and Percy Main starting this spring. Walkergate station, where a new lift is being installed, will follow later this year. The major line closure will be in place duri...

Full article: http://www.nexus.org.uk/news/2013/major-line-closure-byke...