{"id":601569,"date":"2026-08-31T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/601569\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:44:10","slug":"tyne-and-wear-metro-photography-captures-candid-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/601569\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyne and Wear Metro photography captures candid moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An online photography exhibition has captured everyday life on the Tyne and Wear Metro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Terminus, by Newcastle-based documentary photographer Sasha Mallo Tardiveau, chronicled the final two years that the original train fleet was running across the north-east of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mallo Tardiveau spent many hours travelling on the system between 2024 and 2026 &#8211; as the new Metro trains replaced the old ones &#8211; meeting people and taking their pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said people were &#8220;at the heart of this project&#8221;, adding the project was about &#8220;things that seem mundane, but when you see the photo of that moment, it tells a story&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last original Metro train completed its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cdx7errzdk4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">final journey in June<\/a> after 46 years in operation, following a project to replace the ageing fleet with 46 Stadler trains at a cost of \u00a3362m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mallo Tardiveau said: &#8220;My photos show life during the end of an era for our region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Metro has been a part of my life almost daily, and these last two years of work have been like capturing a chapter in our region&#8217;s history.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An online photography exhibition has captured everyday life on the Tyne and Wear Metro. Terminus, by Newcastle-based documentary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-601569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}