The Tyne and Wear Metro, also locally known as the Metro, is a light rail system in North East England, serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Sunderland. It opened in 1980 and in 2007–2008 provided 40 million public journeys on its network of nearly 78 kilometres (48 mi). It is the second largest of the three rapid transit metro systems in the UK, after the London Underground; the other being Glasgow Subway. It is operated by DB Regio Tyne & Wear Ltd (a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn) on behalf of Nexus.
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