{"id":657848,"date":"2026-06-25T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657848\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:20:09","slug":"metro-bridge-collision-live-service-resumes-as-passengers-continue-to-face-delays-in-howdon-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657848\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro bridge collision LIVE: Service resumes as passengers continue to face delays in Howdon area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A section of the <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/all-about\/tyne-and-wear-metro\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Metro<\/a> was suspended due to a Bridge Strike in the <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/all-about\/howdon\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Howdon<\/a> area of North Tyneside. There were no trains on the yellow line between North Shields and Wallsend in both directions for around one hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A bridge strike is an incident where a vehicle collides with a bridge. Nexus, who operate the Metro, arranged alternative travel in the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">We will bring you all the details as we get them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">We have a dedicated Traffic and Travel newsletter. It\u2019s free and you can <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=608f67d5-2f98-4208-923e-a66931cdff76&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">sign up to receive it here<\/a>. It will keep you up to date with all the latest traffic and travel breaking news and top stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of the Metro was suspended due to a Bridge Strike in the Howdon area of North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,220749,86311,16932,16935,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-howdon","tag-north-shields","tag-north-tyneside","tag-tyne-and-wear-metro","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657848","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=657848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}