I Visited the Tyne and Wear Metro!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Time to visit another light rail system! This time, the Tyne and Wear Metro! At long last!
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Note to self: Make sure there's no Tesco pain au chocolat pastry on your lip before pressing the record button..
@Nick Badley I think you should do a pointless journey from Farringdon Tube station to Farringdon national rail station
Honestly didn't see it until I saw this comment 2 min in and went back to the beginning to see what I missed 😅
Once seen can't be unseen! 😂😂😂
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I think you should do a point to point from London Waterloo to Waterloo Merseyside
Shame you missed Whitley Bay station!! It's got one of my favourite watering holes up here, the Ticket Office. Lovely folk who work there, can play board games while you wait, and occasionally catch some live music!
Pure nostalgia for me- I remember the Metro opening in 1980 and the transport freedom it gave to teenage me. The Walkergate stop was near where my parents grew up and met many years before and my Father worked close by. Tynemouth I knew well and had you stopped at Cullercoats, West Monkseaton, South Gosforth, Fawdon and Jesmond, you would have covered 85% of my life below the age of about 25! Then the lure of the Midlands and South became too great. So great to see it again and see how it has changed and developed.
brilliant i used the Tyne & Wear Metro when i was holidaying up in Newcastle last year its a brilliant network i love Tynemouth station as its a lovely station and i love the 80s retro feel on the underground station keep up the awesome work
Shame you missed out Wallsend with its Latin signs. Haymarket is long because it was a built as a “demonstrator station” before the rest of the system, in order to evaluate the design. The rest of the system
was built with shorter platforms because of the costs.
Fun fact: this fleet is still the original fleet! They're planning on bringing in a new fleet next year, they were planned to have the fiest couple enter service this winter but... Apparently they didn't consider the dact that they need to train the drivers how to drive the mew trains...
Excellent video 👍
There's some places on the Tyne & Wear Metro that I would be inclined to avoid in daylight, let alone at night
Meadowell has no meadows and no wells . . . .
Glad you finally got the Tyne and Wear Metro ticked off, great video and Tynemouth is a beautiful station.
Fun fact, a new station is currently being built at northumberland park to accomodate the new blyth and tyne railway.
To accomodate the northumberland line its officially called, however i see why people call it the B&T due to it being used in parts.
Can’t wait to see the new Class 555 Tyne and Wear Metro trains coming into service from next year. I never been on the Tyne and Wear Metro but I would love to go on it before the new trains do enter service next year.
Glad to see you finally doing the Tyne and Wear metro! When I visited Newcastle in October last year, I loved it! It’ll be interesting to see what you think of the new Class 555. They have a similar exterior to the Class 777, but they’re different on the inside. Anyways, extremely well-presented video as always!
Definitely a network I must cause chaos at. It’s been a fun video to watch Nick!
Station road at Northumberland park did lead to a station (Backworth), which closed in 1977
i will answer some questions that you asked in the video as i am local to the area.
-the reason why there is a Station Road but no station there is because formerly, there actually used to be a station located under the road, named Backworth, it Closed in 1977, and a new station near the site wasnt opened until 2005.
-Haymarket's Platform 2 is so long because, originally, it was planned that the trains would be 3 units long, but due to financial constraints, it was decided that the trains would run in Single or Double units opposed to the original Triple Unit operation that was planned.
Ah! Thank you!!
The reason Haymarket is soo long as it used to be a terminus platform when the system opened and could hold a second train. The stations have an extra cut out each end underground ontop of this for the original 3metrocar length plans.
@@rafedragonwolf5105 thats not true, Platform 1 was the Terminus Platform, then trains would run to the Monument Crossover before heading into the Long Platform 2
Also the lift is right at the end of the long platform at Haymarket.
@@NickBadley make a video going to headbolt to Halewood
I kinda enjoyed living in Newcastle metro was usually on time never full overall a pleasant experience and for £6 (at the time) you could get an all rounder ticket that you can use in tyne n wear area on anything metro/trains/busses/ferry(from south to north shields) it was great
Glad you finally made it up to the Toon 😊 Great video
Definitely a missed crossover episode!
@@caramelldansen2204 maybe one day :)
Glad to see you finally made it to the Tyne and Wear Metro, I had a ride on it at the end of last August and I can safely say it's a good metro system. :)
Good metro system try living with them there are off 90% of the time
Great vlog of the Tyne & Wear metro Nick, I rode on it myself briefly a few years ago. I enjoyed watching!
im from here! thanks for visiting. Im from Whitley bay to be exact
Something you should give a go next time is the Shields Ferry as it is valid with your day saver ticket and can be quite an interesting experience
Yep, but he might be wiser to leave at N.Shields , go down Borough Bank and across to S.Shields. The opposite journey is quite a workout
@@andrewphippsphillips1455 hope you don’t mind me asking, I’m going on the ferry from South Shields to North Shields in a few weeks, why is it a lot of work?
Walking back up the bank. It's a steep climb up from the river Tyne to North Shields.
1:45 yeah, anywhere in tyne&wear will givenyou those vibes
@ 1:33 When you got off at walkergate, if you had turned left and went into the industrial estate behind the station, you would have found 2 brewery/taproom/street food vendors. (One of which was on an episode of the hairy bikers). An arcade/fun shack place. And various media offices.
That long track at 05:50 is my fave not too long walk track. A couple of miles and some wildlife to enjoy on the way.
Great video!
Wow thank you!
Hi mate, the new class 555 trains have started to enter service currently operating on the yellow line. Might be worth coming back at some point soon to try them out. They're very nice
Really enjoyed the vid and travelling on the metro at the end of Feb got very familiar with the section between Haymarket and West Jesmond.
Well done for finally making it over there. Given how bad TPE are at the moment, you did well. That market at Tynemouth is huge.
Great work as always mr Nick Badley keep it up good work.
Been waiting for this video, really enjoyed it! You’ll have to come back up and see some more sites when the new trains come into service
Definitely worth checking out the new class 55 metro trains when they come into service later this year.
Locos on T&W?
There are so many light rails called metro out there to name a few (metrolink) but the tyne and wear metro is the only full metro that brands itself rather hilariously as a modern light rail.
Tynemouth market is fantastic.
Oooh next time you visit Tyne and Wear definitely pay a visit to the North Tyneside Steam Railway!
Great video Nick 😃
just be careful with your camera and where you walk at Percy Main!
Looks like you had fun mate.
By coincidence I visited Newcastle a month ago and decided to take a Metro without a particular destination in mind. I also ended up getting off at Northumberland Park
Great video, for all its flaws the metro is definitely a joy to explore.
Northumberland Park replaced a station called Backworth, closed in June 1977
Indirectly replaced it. They didn't build one originally as Shiremoor would do but then built Northl Park in 2005 because someone decided to build a few houses there.
Good to see you up North
Shame you missed Wallsend, where it's bi-lingual English and Latin, because the end of the Wall is the one built by Hadrian.
platform 2 at haymarket is longer because at the end of it is the lift access
TYNEMOUTH IS CLASS
Here we are, about 6 months later, with central station's lift still broken, and haymarcket still occasikanlly going exit only.
5:46 “just a theory a Metro Theory”
Personally, I go for the Tesco bag of three jam doughnuts; that way, you get sugar on your lips, not flakes of pastry. (Oh! - nice vid, as always!)
Northumnerland park will have a BR station when the Blyth and Tyne opens as the Northumberland line between this year and 2026 but they are making fairly good progress the idea is to merge train times with metro and tickets so time will tell if it all works! Though I am fairly sure there would have been a station there many moons ago though before long iroically there'll be one again!
northumberland park metro station is built on the same site where the british rail station called backworth railyway station used to stand this is why in the video he pointed to the sign station road
did you know a tv program that was made by tyne tees called supergran was made in tynemouth and i still got to the market at tynemouth station even before the tyne and wear metro started when it was british rail running dmu's 101's
Thing with the tickets is that they may seem cheap, but that's how the metro can make money. I once forgot my pop card and spent an extra £3.70 on the ticket. Its only really good value if you use it a lot as a visitor like yourself.
You could of used the day saver on the shields ferry as it's part of the metro system
Are you coming back when the class 555’s enter service? One already has but they’ve not all come in yet. Planned to by 2026
at 4:40 my teacher is there
1:52 points at the mcspicy sign? Did you want a mcspicy?
Whoops 😂
this is like an underground dlr
Thanks for going to Sunderland Ha`way the lads
Platform 2 at Haymarket is way longer than platform 1 because LNER trains used to use it
great video
Big missed opportunity, you should have used the Metro to see the name sake rivers. Also next time you should go to Monument, it has some cool history, like how the Metro saved the monument the station is named for.
I have a video about exactly that!
@@edificity Defo not why I know about it.
This is where Danny Boyle is going to make 28 Years Later
Gateshead is where my grandma lives
There are new metro trains on the way which will improve accessibility. You’ll need to visit the . So jealous, every time I’ve tried to visit they can’t get the wheelchair ramps out
I’d honestly thought that they didn’t need ramps considering they are level most of the time (with a little gap)
@@Macrowa they have a mobile unit that goes to stations to provide ramps. Majority although say step free, this doesn't mean wheelchair accessible. Many stations the train is higher than. The platform of the gap is too wide. Calling the mobile unit to get access is hit-and-miss.
Have you ever done the York Tube line? Or do they even have one? I just recently found out (through genealogy) that I'm a Yorkshire girl! Would be awesome to see where I may have long lost family
Hey some one told me that they are going to extend the line through Washington to Durham I live in Washington?
The Metro is brilliant for what it is but its such a shame that the cross-North-Tyneside line isn't there (although the Test Track is part of the George Stephenson Railway Museum) & ends near Percy Main.
Arguably the Metro should have used the old Tyne Electrics layout with updated signals etc. A bit like MerseyRail seems to do.
Gateshead station when taken in the round of the former architecture of the area is far more understandable than it looks on its own. Brutalist magnificence.
It would be nice if there was an actual exchange between the Metro and the steam railway at Percy Main. It would make visiting the museum much easier.
how must the people that ended up in the shot be feeling
Day one of begging Badley to ride on the Cumbrian Coast Line
Let’s go to Haymarket
Should of gone to manors one of the best stations
Legend 👌
OMG...path!
What equipment did you use?
Am I the only one who saw that 3 minute metro turn into 16 minute metro??
Very handsome, makes it easier to watch….great video anyway 😊
Love the metty me
bro live in next to all the places you been to in this vid ( also i been to all them places to)
And as an under 16, i can get a ticket that can go more places than yours (busses and ferry too), and it's inly £1.10
Great video. Hope the security staff didn't catch up with you. . The tyne and wear don't like filming very much
Thankfully not! Was a tad nerve wracking though going into it initially, but no one approached me about it in the end
@Nick Badley that's good . Was oly security staff that had issue station and ttain staff were all very friendly
You might check out a crime map before exploring around random stations...
4:51
Emily Chomicz is pronounced Emily "hom-eech"
Sssssh 😉
@@NickBadley hehe
Riku (whispering): Happy to help :)
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Your lucky there metros was on there are normaly off not working
You pick a number and end up in the dodgiest area of Newcastle. Shame you had to wait 19 minutes. They *should* be every 12 minutes or so but now breakdowns are becoming all too common. It's definitely Tyne-mouth (said how it's spelt) to us locals. Feels like Whitley Bay is always closed. Sunderland is miserable - South Shields has a brand new station and two abandoned ones.
Great video!