The Tyne and Wear Metro is a metro system in Tyne and Wear in north-east England, which opened in 1980.
It has two lines
- linking Newcastle Airport via Newcastle city centre, Gateshead, Jarrow to South Shields
- linking Newcastle city centre to North Shields, Whitley Bay, then looping back on itself and going south via the city centre again to Gateshead, the Stadium of Light, Sunderland and South Hylton