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How many platforms will the new South Shields station have?

4028 tripped the OHLE on the Hebburn line this morning. It limped into Pelaw with the front pan down and disgorged a heavily loaded train onto the platform - I've never seen Pelaw so crammed. Once emptied it moved back to Pelaw sidings.

Anyone know what's going on with this page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nexus-Tyne-Wear-Metro/206160346097479 From the way it's written it appears to be written by a bored teenager but is still passing itself off as an official page?

Don't forget the other problem with peak frequency on the Shields branch is stock availability and capacity through Newcastle city centre. Saying that, I agree it's an ideal time to think about the long-awaited dualling (and maybe even building the additional station between Pelaw and Hebburn...

I wonder if the ticket machines could be configured to do smartcard validation as a back-up for when the validators are (inevitably) broken? They've got all the card-reading hardware so presumably it'd just be a software update?

Are the national rail platforms at Heworth even long enough to take an HST set?

Thanks Nexus_Comms for those pictures, pretty interesting. I notice the horizontal frame continues across the front of the car where the emergency exit door was located on the original test metrocars in the 70s. I wonder if that's why the door was eventually removed in the production metrocars...