New Tyne and Wear Metro timetable from 13 October 2019

[AutoKratz]

The Metro timetable is changing from Sunday 13 October. Nexus say it will provide more frequent services during peak travel periods.

The new timetable will mean:

• A network-wide regular 12 minute frequency from the first train to each Metro terminus.

• Morning and evening peak services running from Monkseaton to Pelaw will be increased.

• An evening peak Monkseaton to Longbenton service will be extended to Pelaw, due to feedback that Longbenton platform and existing services are busy at this time when the train currently terminates at Longbenton.

• The number of trains departing from St James in the afternoon peak will increase by two. Six services will depart between 4pm and 5pm compared with five currently. Departures between 5pm and 6pm will increase from four to five.

• On Saturdays an early morning train which currently starts service at South Gosforth will instead start at Benton, providing an earlier start to service from Benton.

• An additional trip between Longbenton and St James has been added on Saturday mornings when the service ramps up from a 15 minute to a 12 minute frequency.

https://www.nexus.org.uk/news/item/...ill-deliver-more-frequent-services-peak-times

 

[MetroCar4058]

Will need to see the full WTT before making a judgement but it just seems like increased headways but better use of resource. I hope not all Regent Centres are decimated as it can get quite busy there in the early peak with the school and the offices.

Good to see that 5tph are back on between St James and North Shields 5-6pm. Although that reduction probably shouldn't have happened anyway.

 

[Tetchytyke]

The 5th train between 5 and 6 is about 5.05, so won't be much use. The other changes are moving the Regent Centre fresh air carriers to Monkseaton, which is a great move as trains can be so full they leave people behind as far out as Northumberland Park.

 

[DanNCL]

I've had a quick look at the timetable pdf that's been uploaded for South Gosforth, and unfortunately it looks like this timetable change is made out by Nexus to be more of an improvement than it really is. During the evening peak, the Pelaw - Regent Centre services aren't re-routed to Monkseaton as Nexus seem to be suggesting but rather just appear to be removed altogether (I couldn't find a single Regent Centre terminator between 16:00 and 18:00 in the new timetable), and the only extra Northbound services from Pelaw that don't currently exist in the new timetable are a couple of Benton terminators just before 18:00 (in addition to the one service from Pelaw around 18:00 ish that already terminates at Benton). As for the sixth train between 16:00 and 17:00 that Nexus have promised from St James, rather than this being an extra train it's just the existing 17:00 service re-timed to depart at 16:58.

 

[Paul_10]

I've had a quick look at the timetable pdf that's been uploaded for South Gosforth, and unfortunately it looks like this timetable change is made out by Nexus to be more of an improvement than it really is. During the evening peak, the Pelaw - Regent Centre services aren't re-routed to Monkseaton as Nexus seem to be suggesting but rather just appear to be removed altogether (I couldn't find a single Regent Centre terminator between 16:00 and 18:00 in the new timetable), and the only extra Northbound services from Pelaw that don't currently exist in the new timetable are a couple of Benton terminators just before 18:00 (in addition to the one service from Pelaw around 18:00 ish that already terminates at Benton). As for the sixth train between 16:00 and 17:00 that Nexus have promised from St James, rather than this being an extra train it's just the existing 17:00 service re-timed to depart at 16:58.

So there is no additional trains heading from Pelaw to St James in the peak then as to get that extra train per hour, surely there would be at least one that heads to St James? Used to be 2 trains quite a few years ago, no idea why this was stopped though?

Glad too see the Regent Centre services pulled though, I think some may still start there as of now but none will terminate there during the peak?

 

[Tetchytyke]

the only extra Northbound services from Pelaw that don't currently exist in the new timetable are a couple of Benton terminators just before 18:00

There's a couple of extra Monkseatons before 1700.

 

[danpick]

An extra TRB now runs on the Yellow Line, TRB136, coincidence that there's a constant lack of crew on that line all of a sudden.

 

[jkkne]

An extra TRB now runs on the Yellow Line, TRB136, coincidence that there's a constant lack of crew on that line all of a sudden.

indeed it’s been an utter shambles since the new timetable came in. They announced a withdrawn train until end of service at lunchtime today. Absolutely crazy.

the poor sods running twitter look like they’ve become as frustrated with the utterly incompetent leadership as the rest of us. The ‘management told us to say that’ tweet was illuminating

 

[danpick]

indeed it’s been an utter shambles since the new timetable came in. They announced a withdrawn train until end of service at lunchtime today. Absolutely crazy.

the poor sods running twitter look like they’ve become as frustrated with the utterly incompetent leadership as the rest of us. The ‘management told us to say that’ tweet was illuminating

The lack of drivers is rather worrying, 4 missing evening peak services too, and now TRB110 missing on the Green Line.

I feel for the staff on the Twitter page, they can't be having a good quality of life atm, they seem to come into work daily to be given constant abuse from passengers for something out of their control.

 

[Tetchytyke]

indeed it’s been an utter shambles since the new timetable came in.

It's been a shambles since spring 2018!

Tobyn Hughes still, mysteriously, has a job. He must have some serious dirt on Nick Forbes