Bosses Are Expecting the Full Fleet to Be in Use By the End of 2026
Two More New Tyne and Wear Metro Trains Have Arrived in the North East – and Bosses Say They Still Excel The System’s £ 362 Million Fleet to Be Fully in Use By the End of Next Year.
The 16th and 17th Units in the Stadler Fleet, out of a total 46 that will be Built, we delivered to the metro’s GosFort depot in the dayly Hours of Friday Morning.
After the first of the Swiss-Made Trains Enveloped Passenger Service Last December, The Modern Carrages Are Being GradoLly Rolled Out.
They are Replacing the StruGling Carriges that have served the metro Network Sink it operated in 1980 and have become increasingly failure-PRENE.
As well as being 15 times more ref.
Five of the New Fleet Are now running in the time
On Friday, Metro Operator Nexus Says It Still Expects to Have Half of the New Fleet in Service by the End of 2025 and All of the New Trains by the End of 2026.
Paul Welford, Major Projects Director at Nexus, SAID: “The Roll Out of the New Metro Train Fleet is Going Well.
“Customers Will Have Started to Notice that More New Trains are now operating on the system. These are today are transformative in terries of comment, Quality, Security and Reliability.
“This is the Biggest Project in Metro’s History and the Introduction of New Trains is a Culmination of Many Months of Detail Testing and ComMissioning on our Network.
“We have now pube new metro trains inte Customer services and more will be envering Service in the costs.
“In TERMS of Delivery, We Have 17 New Metro Trains in North East England, Whiche Are Eighter in Service or UnderGoing our Rigorous Testing Programme. Stadler will be Delivering Ar New Trains from their factory in switzerland this Calendar Year.
“We are working incredibly hard with our colleagues at Stadler to Ensure Each New Train is Ready to Opeater Safely for Our Customers.
“We Still Anticipate that We Will Safely Transition 23 New Metro Trains Into Customer Service by the End of 2025, and Have All 46 in Service by the End of 2026.
“We’re Also Makeing Good Progress with our Metro Driver Trainal Programme. This Continues in Parallel with the roll out the new fleet. Qualifies them to Drive the New Metro Trains. ”
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