{"id":514607,"date":"2026-04-05T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514607\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:59:08","slug":"metro-to-be-shut-down-for-south-gosforth-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514607\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro to be shut down for South Gosforth upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Passengers are being warned that the Tyne and Wear Metro will be &#8220;shut down&#8221; to allow the replacement of old equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Systems controlling critical safety functions, including overhead power lines, lighting and fire alarms, are being upgraded at its base in South Gosforth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trains will not run across the entire network on Easter Monday between 05:00 and 10:00 BST and there will be no trains between Pelaw and South Hylton from 23:30 on Sunday 3 May until 10:30 the following morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Metro operator Nexus has warned passengers to allow extra time for journeys, which will be served by replacement buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers are being warned that the Tyne and Wear Metro will be &#8220;shut down&#8221; to allow the replacement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-514607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}