Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rail system with 60 stations serving Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, North Tyneside and South Tyneside. It currently carries over 40 million passenger journeys a year and in January 2010 Nexus secured over £350 million from the Government in funding to invest in the Metro’s renewal and modernisation.

As part of Haymarket improvements, Nexus was looking for a company that could produce and install large curved, lit poster frames to follow the curvature of the underground walls. Nexus was struggling to find a company which could fulfil this until Horizon stepped forward and worked in partnership with them to develop a specially designed unit.

After a 12 month installation programme, there are now 48 of Horizon’s unique light boxes in place in the station in central Newcastle, lighting the way for the thousands of passengers that travel through each day.

George Foster, Director at Horizon, said: “Working together we managed to create a new concept which fulfilled the clients’ requirements, the project was very successful and we look forward to working with Nexus in the future.”

Brian Wilson, Head of Engineering at Nexus, added: “It was very difficult to find a company that would be able to meet our specific requirements and create bespoke signs for us. Horizon came up with the perfect solution, we were impressed with their professionalism throughout the project and we are really pleased with the end result.”

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