FareGo PG50

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Six metal walls with glass gates attached to the side, forming five gates. All the gates pictured are open. The two outermost gates are wider than the middle three. Every wall has two light strips on the front; all the strips pictured are either off or lit green. Every wall has a computer screen with instructions and an LED arrow pointing to the corresponding gate, both on the top. Every wall except the leftmost one is fitted with an orange paper ticket feeder and a black NFC/contactless reader, both at the top front corner.
FareGo PG|50 ticket gates in operation at Regent Centre

The FareGo PG|50 is a model of automatic ticket gate manufactured by Scheidt & Bachmann. They were introduced at Regent Centre Metro station in December 2025 as part of a £2.1 million programme to install more ticket gates at Metro stations.[1]

History on the Metro network

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On 20 March 2025, the North East Combined Authority (NECA, now the North East Mayoral Strategic Authority) announced that they had signed off Kim McGuinness' £208 million delivery plan for better transport. One part of this delivery plan was to install more gatelines at Metro stations, with Regent Centre to be the first to receive them.[2] Prior to this, only 13 out of 60 stations on the Metro network had gatelines, with the last of these installed at Chichester in 2015.[3] This gateline project was marketed with the objective "to tackle ticketless travel and improve safety, especially for women and girls".[4] Nexus had also begun a feasibility study to determine which other stations it would be most suitable to install them at.[5]

Cream-coloured walls enclosing a construction area. A locked entrance with windows is visible on one side, and an information panel labelled "Gateline project" and branded with the NECA logo on the other.
Hoarding at Regent Centre during installation of the new gateline

By 27 July 2025, the long-disused ticket barriers at Regent Centre had been removed and replaced by construction hoarding.[OR] On 4 August 2025, NECA confirmed that installation of the new gateline at Regent Centre was underway.[4] On 26 August 2025, Scheidt & Bachmann confirmed that it had been awarded a contract to install the new ticket gates, and that those ticket gates would be their FareGo PG|50 model.[6][7][8]

By 16 December 2025, the new gateline at Regent Centre was operational for the public.[OR] However, their official opening wasn't until 22 December 2025.[9]

Technical features

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The base FareGo PG|50 model can support several contactless payment methods, including smartcards, contactless bank cards (cEMV), smartphones, and barcodes.[10] However, the gates installed at Regent Centre currently only support smartcards (Pop cards) and paper magnetic stripe tickets.

FareGo PG|50 ticket gates have light strips indicating the status of a gate (green for enabled, red for disabled), a computer screen for instructions and information, and an LED symbolic indicator (green arrow pointing to the gate when enabled, red cross when disabled).[OR]

The ticket gates installed at Regent Centre are integrated with Metro's existing ticketing infrastructure, which is largely provided by Scheidt & Bachmann.[1][6]

Sources

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "New Metro ticket gates go live at Regent Centre" (accessed 28 May 2026). Nexus. 23 December 2025.
  2. ↑ Serle, Fraser (20 March 2025). "Mayor approves £208m transport investment" (archived). North East Combined Authority.
  3. ↑ Holland, Daniel (5 August 2025). "New Metro ticket gates 'will deter fare evasion'" (archived). BBC.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Serle, Fraser (4 August 2025). "Work gets underway on Mayor’s Metro ticket gate investment" (archived). North East Combined Authority.
  5. ↑ Holland, Daniel (20 March 2025). "More ticket gates on Metro to cut fare dodging" (archived). BBC.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "New Ticketing Gates from Scheidt & Bachmann to Be Installed at Tyne and Wear Metro" (archived). Scheidt & Bachmann via LinkedIn. 26 August 2025.
  7. ↑ Crampton, Rosie (27 August 2025). "Scheidt & Bachmann to supply new ticketing gates to Nexus" (accessed 28 May 2026). RailBusinessDaily.
  8. ↑ "Ticketing gate contract for Tyne and Wear Metro awarded" (archived). RailwayPRO. 27 August 2025.
  9. ↑ Hall, Daniel (23 December 2025). "Metro gets first new ticket barriers in over 10 years as part of £208m transport package" (archived). ChronicleLive.
  10. ↑ "FareGo PG|50 Fare Gate" (archived). Scheidt & Bachmann.
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