20 Problems Only People From Newcastle Will Understand

13. The Metro

South Shields Newcastle Metro Train
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When it first launched it was 5p for a child ticket, they turned up every half an hour, and all the passengers held hands and sung as it rattled along the tracks. Now it costs almost all of your pocket money to get to town and back, they explode in a fireball if it so much as rains, and it's full of Mackems in full football kit going to the airport.

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