{"id":668092,"date":"2026-07-01T14:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668092\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:39:09","slug":"metro-suspension-live-updates-as-trains-back-on-but-passengers-warned-normal-service-will-take-some-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668092\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro suspension LIVE: Updates as trains back on but passengers warned normal service &#8216;will take some time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Stuart Clarke, Infrastructure Director at Nexus, said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cMetro services are currently suspended between Heworth and South Hylton and Heworth and South Shields due to a failed engineering vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThe vehicle, which we use for overhead line repair, developed an issue while on the Pelaw track junction in the early hours of this morning, Wednesday 1 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThis is a key Metro junction where the line splits between South Tyneside and Sunderland. Unfortunately, the location of the vehicle at this junction means that both lines are affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuart Clarke, Infrastructure Director at Nexus, said: \u201cMetro services are currently suspended between Heworth and South Hylton and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,16934,2888,16935,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-nexus","tag-traffic-travel","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\/668092","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=668092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}