Metro services back to normal after overhead line failure

Technical problems which caused delays on the Tyne and Wear Metro this morning have now been resolved.

There were previous delays of up to 15 minutes between South Gosforth and South Shields due to problem with the overhead line.

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A Metro train.

@my_metro tweeted: "Disruption cleared at 09:07"

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