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We love this story! A Nexus employee has had a unique bite of the Big Apple, officiating his best friend’s wedding in New York. Alun Morley, who works in our ICT Department, got the role of celebrant at the wedding ceremony of his pals Michael and Eleanor Elstob after they decided to tie the knot in the city that never sleeps. Alun, 50, of Cramlington, was just going to be the best man before getting a phone call from Michael to say that the wedding had been switched from Newcastle to NYC. The happy couple, of Bishop Auckland, then asked Alun if he would be able to do their wedding vows too, prompting a scramble to get the right paperwork allowing him to do that legally under New York State law. Alun is pictured, below, officiating the wedding next to the Brooklyn Bridge. Photo credit: Eye of the Tyne Photography, North Tyneside Business Centre, Howard House, 54a Saville Street, North Shields NE30 1NT. Read: https://lnkd.in/eErm_yGX

Metro control room set to undergo an £8.8m renewal scheme! New technology which remotely monitors and controls key assets which are essential for the day-to-day operation of the Tyne and Wear Metro is to be installed in a £8.8m modernisation project. Metro’s Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System, known as SCADA, is to be replaced with new digital equipment. It will allow for faster and more effective fault finding – providing Metro customers will less disruption to essential facilities like lifts and escalators. Metro’s current SCADA system, which is run from a desk in the Metro Control Centre at South Gosforth, was installed in the mid-1990s and needs to be replaced. The project is part of £43m Nexus is investing in Metro modernisation this year. The public body has invested more than £408m in infrastructure renewal since 2010, as well as commissioning a £362m new train fleet for a network used by 31 million customers a year. The SCADA system is used to manage Metro’s power supply, fire and intruder alarms, lighting, lifts, escalators and tunnel drainage pumps. The work is being carried out on behalf of Nexus by Sella Controls the UK’s regional centre of HIMA Group, a global independent provider of safety-related automation solutions for the rail and process industries. The project will take two years to complete. It will be the most significant upgrade to the Metro control room since the installation of a £12m computerised signalling control system in 2018. 

We are once again proudly teaming up with Gem Arts for this year’s Masala Festival to bring a colourful and vibrant splash of South Asian culture to the region this summer. The Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band (pictured) will wow crowds near Monument and Haymarket Metro stations in Newcastle city centre on Friday 19 July as part of the busy Masala event programme. We are the official headline partner of GemArts’ annual Masala Festival 2024 as part of its commitment to celebrating and encouraging diversity and inclusion amongst its employees and customers. The Gem Arts’ award-winning Masala Festival takes place 15-21 July, celebrating South Asian creativity and culture at a range of local venues.

📸 Our new Stadler train completed its first day time test run in Sunderland this morning 🙌🤩