Photo's description:

A feature of the proposed scheme of the Tyne and Wear Metro, forming a ring-radial network, is the ability to organize routes, which provide connection between any two stations without interchanges. This, of course, increases the movement, but to minimize the inconvenience suffered by passengers, when transplanted from one train to another, overcoming the corridors, ramps, elevators and escalators at the interchange nodes. An example of such route: travel from the Station “East Durham” to the Station “Haddon-on-the-Wall”. Normal, the “Short route”: This route passes through 10 stations, and implies two transfers with the use of escalators or elevators. Its length is 24.5 km / 14.91 miles. Even if you have a maintainer for passengers with disabilities serial input and output in three trains, performed twice to transfer from one line to another, using elevators or escalators, creates obvious technical and psychological discomfort. There is another, “Average route”: This route passes through 17 stations. Its length is 27.0 km / 16.78 miles. The route involves one transfer. This transfer performed at the same station “Monument” in another train. Alternatively, you can use the “Long route”: This route passes through 43 stations. Its length is 46.0 km / 28.58 miles. It takes about one and a half times as long. But on this route there is no transfer which minimizes the technical and psychological discomfort.
Name of photo's author: Gleb K.Samoilov
This photo was taken in: Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom