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Sunday, 8 April 2007, 12:31 GMT 13:31 UK

Stretch of Metro system suspended

Map Northern Rail and Metro services in the Sunderland area have been suspended for five days for engineering work.

There are no trains between Pelaw and South Hylton from Monday so Network Rail can carry out the work.

These are in the Sunderland tunnel which is so wet that the overhead lines have seen the equivalent of 50 years' worth of corrosion in four years.

A replacement bus service is operating but passengers are being warned to allow extra time for their journeys.

Service 900, departing from Fawcett Street in Sunderland, is calling at all stations between there and Heworth Interchange.

Service 901 is operating between Athenaeum Street in Sunderland and South Hylton.

The rest of the network is running as normal.

Northern Rail services have also been suspended, with trains from the north terminating at Heworth and from the south at Seaham.



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