TWO of Tyne & Wear Metro’s existing Class 599‘Metrocars’are to be preserved, but operator Nexus has abandoned plans to offer vehicles to local groups for repurposing once they are displaced by its new Stadler Class 555 fleet.
As previously expected, No. 4001 will become part of the collection at the Stephenson Railway Museum on North Tyneside. The site was home to the unit and fellow prototype No. 4002 when it was the test track for the system in the 1970s. Beamish Museum will also receive a‘Metrocar’.
Bids were invited