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1469-6215. OCLC number. 225917520. Website. metro .co .uk. Metro is the United Kingdom's highest-circulation freesheet tabloid newspaper. It is published in tabloid format by DMG Media. [2] The newspaper is distributed from Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays and the period between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day inclusive) mornings on ...
An automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London. Tyne and Wear: Tyne and Wear Metro: 11 August 1980 74.5 km 2 60 1500 V DC OLE: A rapid transit and light rail system in North East England, serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Sunderland in the Tyne and Wear ...
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. [5] The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, opening on 10 January 1863 as the world's ...
South Wales Metro – Four light rapid transit lines are opening in the Welsh Capital of Cardiff as part of the current "Metro" plan Phase 1 in 2023, which will reach as far out of the capital as Hirwaun, a town 31 miles (50 km) from Cardiff Bay, as well as three new lines planned to open by 2026. Proposed systems
Manchester Metrolink [note 1] is a tram / light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. [10] The network has 99 stops along 64 miles (103 km) of standard-gauge route, [1] making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom. [11] Over the 2022/23 financial year 36 million passenger journeys were made on the system.
The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system [4] [5] [6] serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland (together forming Tyne and Wear ). It has been described as the "first modern light rail system in the United Kingdom". [7]
The West Midlands Metro is a light-rail/tram system in the county of West Midlands, England.The network has 33 stops with a total of 14 miles (23 km) of track; it currently consists of a single route, Line 1, which operates between the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton via the towns of Bilston, West Bromwich and Wednesbury, on a mixture of former railway lines and urban on-street running.
The London Underground is a metro system in the United Kingdom that serves Greater London and the home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire. Its first section opened in 1863, [1] making it the oldest underground metro system in the world – although approximately 55% of the current network is above ground, [2] as it generally ...