🎥 All 60 stations on our network now have tactile surfacing, which create a visual and physical alert to the presence of a platform’s edge to aid people who are visually impaired – as well as step-free access from street to platform. Our Project Manager Victoria Campbell and Lewis Winton from RNIB explain the importance of this project ⬇️ | Tyne and Wear Metro

Rare colour footage of the Tyne and Wear Metro’s first year of operations has been unearthed on eBay. The video provides a snapshot of Metro in July of 1981, when the system was less than a year old and was still brand new. Watch here. Metro was first opened to the public in August 1980 before more sections were completed through to 1984. It was further extended to Newcastle Airport in 1991 and to Sunderland in 2002. The film, which was shot using an 8mm cine camera, captures a journey on the fi