TYNE AND WEAR METRO: 40 YEARS AND COUNTING PART1

摘要

The Tyne & Wear Metro was the UK's first modern light rail system, opening between Haymarket and Tynemouth on 11 August 1980. The network's first phase expanded over the next four years, with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ officially opening the route to Gateshead on 6 November 1981, the North Tyneside loop opening a year later in November 1982, and the South Shields line on 23 March 1984. Work on the first rail-based mass transit system outside London began in 1974, although initial plans date back to the start of that decade with the publication of the newly-created Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive's Transport Plan for the 1980s. This visionary document promoted a continental-style integrated transport system based around a modern light rail backbone, with new tunnels under Newcastle and Gateshead, to link heavy rail, bus and ferry services with, crucially, through-ticketing.