Monday 25th April is going to go down as \u201cone of those days\u201d for Manchester Metrolink we would suspect after the entire network was suspended for four hours. This came after a \u201cserious technical issue\u201d at Trafford Depot which led to several safety critical systems going off line.<\/p>\n
The problems started at around 11.30am when the technical issue meant that control room staff were unable to monitor tram movements or access information displays. This led to an immediate suspension of services on all eight Metrolink lines with queues of trams reported at various locations, particularly in the city centre. Several trams were stopped away from platforms and when the decision was made to detram all passengers some wheelchair users and those with prams had to be carried off the high floor trams.<\/p>\n
After engineers attended to the problem Metrolink services started to resume shortly after 1600 but as is usual following major disruption it wasn\u2019t possible to run a full service immediately. Manchester Metrolink confirmed that they would be introducing a 12 minute service on all lines \u201cthroughout the evening peak\u201d.<\/p>\n
Peter Cushing, TfGM\u2019s Metrolink Director, said: \u201cIt\u2019s good news that the issue has been identified and resolved and I\u2019d like to apologise to anyone who has been affected by today\u2019s network issues. We are now concentrating on getting services back up and running as quickly as possible and we are aiming to restore a 12 minute service across all lines this evening.\u201d<\/p>\n
We would imagine that social media users went into meltdown during the disruption but life is just too short to go through what Mr Angry from Wythenshawe and Miss Irritated of Rochdale might have to say on the subject!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Monday 25th April is going to go down as \u201cone of those days\u201d for Manchester Metrolink we would suspect after the entire network was suspended for four hours. This came after a \u201cserious technical issue\u201d at Trafford Depot which led … Continue reading