Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "The Tyne and Wear Metro, also locally known as the Metro, is a rapid transit system in North East England, serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Sunderland in the Tyne and Wear region. The Metro is also described as Britain's first modern light rail system. It can be considered a hybrid system, displaying elements of light rail, heavy underground metro, and longer-distance, higher speed suburban and interurban railway systems.It opened in 1980 and in 2007–2008 provided 40 million public journeys on its network of 74.5 kilometres (46.3 mi). It is the second largest of the three metro systems in the United Kingdom, after the London Underground; the other being Glasgow Subway. It is operated by DB Regio Tyne & Wear Ltd (a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn and a part of Arriva UK Trains) on behalf of Nexus."@en }
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- Tyne_and_Wear_Metro abstract "The Tyne and Wear Metro, also locally known as the Metro, is a rapid transit system in North East England, serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Sunderland in the Tyne and Wear region. The Metro is also described as Britain's first modern light rail system. It can be considered a hybrid system, displaying elements of light rail, heavy underground metro, and longer-distance, higher speed suburban and interurban railway systems.It opened in 1980 and in 2007–2008 provided 40 million public journeys on its network of 74.5 kilometres (46.3 mi). It is the second largest of the three metro systems in the United Kingdom, after the London Underground; the other being Glasgow Subway. It is operated by DB Regio Tyne & Wear Ltd (a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn and a part of Arriva UK Trains) on behalf of Nexus.".