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The battery locos (BL1, BL2 and BL3) are all being refurbished, so those will be used again from 2028. There is also a rumour that Nexus will be hiring third-party locos in for the 2027 RHTT.

26 July, exactly 1 month after the official farewell

With the Airport line closure, green line trains that would usually go to Airport are instead running Not In Service from South Gosforth to Monkseaton and back. I believe there was also driver training running NIS today.

St James end of platform 2

From the sounds of it, it would just be whatever trains show up, which would almost certainly be entirely Class 555. If it were to do with metrocars, then the run from Northumberland Park to Ashington would be particularly strange!

That farewell tour was booked for a date that ended up being during the major line closure due to concerns about the Gateshead flyover, which is why it didn't go ahead. I've heard rumours about there being other reasons Nexus no longer want to facilitate a BLS tour, too. Whenever someone asks...

Nexus only published the timetables just over an hour ago. A summary was posted elsewhere, but I'm not sure what the original source for that was which is why I didn't share that version lol. Article...

Beamish are no longer able to take it. Nexus have publicly confirmed that a metrocar will be going to a different museum instead, although they haven't yet confirmed if it is still 4020 or which museum it will be going to. However, the latest rumours are that it is still 4020 and it is now going...

Probably around 11:30-12:00 based on the past couple days. The hauliers are already at Howdon, and the metrocars are nearly there.

These new hauliers don't go via the Tyne Tunnel because apparently their trailer is too long for it. I'm not sure on the exact route, though.

Nexus has now confirmed to the Local Democracy Reporting Service that a couple metrocars might be retained for the RHTT. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/whats-happening-old-tyne-wear-34107034 To be clear, this isn't confirmation that they will, and I believe negotiations...

There's a couple links at the bottom of the first post to communities where a number of people track allocations posted :smile: Obligatory note though that I am an admin of one of those communities, so take that as you will.

No metrocars on those services unfortunately. T151 - 555013 T152 - 555032 T153 - 555006 T154 - 555001 T155 - 555038 T156 - 555011 T157 - 555032 T158 - 555013

Beamish are no longer able to take it, and it will be going to a different museum that has yet to be named instead. This was (finally...) confirmed by LDRS on Tuesday, such as in this Chronicle article.

I don't see why length would be the issue. Metro have successfully operated 4x 555s coupled together out on the network for a delivery, and 3x 555s coupled together for a rescue during service hours, so 2x 555s plus the RHTT wagon (MA06) should theoretically be fine. There is also an adapter...