No Metro on Saturday evening

Metro services will be suspended throughout the system from early evening on Saturday, 19 February, and will restart from around 8am on Sunday, 20 February.

Customers are advised to seek alternative arrangements if they need to travel at these times, including making journeys later on Sunday morning.

Nexus, the public body which operates Metro, has apologised for the disruption and the inconvenience it will cause, which is the result of an industrial relations matter involving Metro's Control Centre employees.

• Metro services will start running off after 16:00 on Saturday although the majority of stations will see their last trains between 17:00 and 18:00 in the evening.
• On Sunday morning the service will build up from 08:00 with a normal timetable from 09:00, including a replacement bus all day Saturday and Sunday between Chichester and South Shields for planned modernisation work.

Metro tickets will be accepted on local buses across the area while the service is suspended. Customers should plan their journey in advance at www.nexus.org.uk/jplanner and select 'bus' in the travel mode option.