This is the Pop card that Metro Season Tickets (including Student or 18 and Under) or Network One Tickets (including for Students and Young People) are loaded onto. Please note that when you renew these online, you load them onto your Pop card at a Metro station.

Pop Pay As You Go is the smart way to pay for public transport in North East England. Simply top up your Pop PAYG card and use it to pay for your journeys on Tyne and Wear Metro, buses and the Shields Ferry as you make them.

Children can travel at concessionary child fares all day, every day on all public transport in Tyne and Wear if they have an Under 16 Pop card. Under 16 Pop cards are available to all children who live in Tyne and Wear who are in year 11 and below at school, which means they’re aged 5 to 15 on the 31 August before the start of the current academic year.

Pop blue is the smart way to pay for your travel if you're aged 21 or under. Just load a balance on to your Pop blue card and use it to pay for your journeys on Tyne and Wear Metro, buses and the Shields Ferry as you make them.

Junior blue is the brand new way to pay for travel for children aged 15 or under. Just use the balance on a Junior blue card to pay for journeys on Tyne and Wear Metro, buses and the Shields Ferry.