Well 4002 lasted 10 minutes before failing at West Jesmond.
Well 4002 lasted 10 minutes before failing at West Jesmond.
There's also a Sunderland-Benton at Christmas I think.During engineering works you'll see slightly unusual routes: Airport trains will divert to Monkseaton when the Airport line is shut, for instance. And at Christmas they run extra trains Sunderland-Monkseaton for shoppers.
But beyond that, no.
Absolute shambles by the looks of things this morning. No service system wide and passengers being told to fend for themselves. Why there is no disaster recovery plan is beyond me.
There is a lot we can and are doing, staff haven't stopped working all day. The situation is absolutely dire and we are seriously doing our best.
This has nothing to do with Government funding at all, at least from what we know right now. I'd suggest you wait till an incident report is made before jumping to conclusions.
Exactly. Why is MerseyRail getting new trains? How has GMPTE managed to expand Metrolink? Because they know what they are doing....The lack of ticket acceptance- and, even more to the point, their refusal to allow consequential loss claims that they should under the law- is what is shambolic. They clearly just didn't want to pay the necessary to have acceptance on the buses.
This has nothing to do with government funding and everything to do with Metro and Nexus incompetence. And *that* is going to the big problem. Are government really going to give these clowns £400m funding when they can't even do basic things properly?
The lack of ticket acceptance- and, even more to the point, their refusal to allow consequential loss claims that they should under the law- is what is shambolic. They clearly just didn't want to pay the necessary to have acceptance on the buses.
This has nothing to do with government funding and everything to do with Metro and Nexus incompetence. And *that* is going to the big problem. Are government really going to give these clowns £400m funding when they can't even do basic things properly?
They aren't even sticking to their own conditions of carriage.
3.2 – If the service is withdrawn due
to a fault or planned engineering
work, Metro will provide alternative
travel arrangements, depending on the
circumstances. These will normally be
by way of either replacement buses,
taxis, shuttle services, or the acceptance
of Metro tickets on other commercial
services. Advice will be given on which
alternative arrangements will be in
place through regular public address
announcements, or by staff on stations
and Help Points. In the case of cancellation
of last trains, a replacement train will
be provided or, failing that, taxis will be
provided for stranded passengers.
Hi guys, have any of yours noticed some of the metros now sound like London tube trains when accelerating, any reason for this?
Ah, I see.This isn’t the trains, it’s the rails.
Rail grinding has been done south of Ilford Road to at least as far as Central Station.
The freshly ground rails have striations on the railhead, which is what causes the F1 car / old tube train sound.
All of those are in traffic, 4002 (and 4001) carry the new fleet livery but remain un-refurbished. The only unit that is out of action long term is 4022, which is in Bristol following accident damage last year, and may be scrapped rather than repaired.Just thought I would ask if there is any news on the following units as this forum had gone slightly quite.
I understand that 4002 maybe back? but has anyone seen any of these 3 units recently 4016, 4018 & 4045 please?
Regards