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The Journal
|October 07, 2025
An old Tyne and Wear Metro train has been scrapped in front of two emotional drivers.
The decommissioned carriage from the previous Metro fleet underwent specialist breakage work at the J Denham Metals Yard in Bishop Auckland.
Retired Metro driver Lesley Williams and current serving driver Jon Doughty made the trip, to observe firsthand how the old Metro carriages are taken apart and then stripped bare so that their metals can be recycled.
So far, Metro operator Nexus has decommissioned 35 of its old carriages.
This story is from the October 07, 2025 edition of The Journal.
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