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Tyne and Wear Metro Mileage
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There used to be a Tyne and Wear Transport discussion group, not sure if it still going since the demise of MSNgroups. They used to have a bit of info on their site.
I'm sure you know anyway but distances used to be stuck or painted on each OHL mast and measured from the datum which is the middle of the junction at South Gosforth where the Airport and Coast lines diverge. The distances are all metric. The first 2 or 3 letters indicate the electrical section the mast is in, the middle set of numbers is the whole number of km from the South Gosforth datum and the last 3 numbers is the number of metres. Hope that makes some sort of sense.
I'm sure you know anyway but distances used to be stuck or painted on each OHL mast and measured from the datum which is the middle of the junction at South Gosforth where the Airport and Coast lines diverge. The distances are all metric. The first 2 or 3 letters indicate the electrical section the mast is in, the middle set of numbers is the whole number of km from the South Gosforth datum and the last 3 numbers is the number of metres. Hope that makes some sort of sense.
The TW Group is still around somewhere, have a search on Google. Not sure if that have put everything on yet as last time I looked it seemed to be a bit incomplete. Otherwise you could give Metro an email, I did this when looking for info for the Metrocar model and they sent some very useful information.
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