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English: The main circulating area between platforms at Gateshead Tyne and Wear Metro station, giving an indication of the unsually wide island platform. This was photographed through the window of train 4089, and at the top of the picture the reflection of the new London Undergound-style strip map can be seen. These strip maps only appear above the doors on the trains, and are regarded by most as vastly inferior to the tradtional style map (visible in Gateshead metro station 01.jpg|this photograph). The main reason for this is that the strip map does not show the unique feature of the Yellow line - that it runs in an e-shaped loop, calling twice at Monument station. The strip maps instead show Monument station in two separate locations, the first in the centre of the shared section in the middle of the map, and the second as the penultimate station on the left edge of the map. The latter location gives no indication that it is an interchange station with the Green line.