{"id":30875,"date":"2019-11-11T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30875"},"modified":"2019-11-11T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:26:18","slug":"tyne-and-wear-metro-continues-to-have-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30875","title":{"rendered":"Tyne and Wear Metro continues to have problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next performance poster of the Tyne and Wear Metro is likely to be fairly interesting as there remains fairly regular service disruption, if their own Twitter feed is in anyway accurate.<\/p>\n

Cancelled services \u2013 especially the additional peak services due to run each day \u2013 seem to have been the norm in recent days with failed trains often seeming to be the issue. This is despite extra funding being put towards the regular maintenance of the trains but it really does seem that their age is really starting to catch-up with them considering they are still the originals constructed for the opening of the line between 1978 and 1981. There may be new trains on the horizon \u2013 although who will win the contract to do so is embroiled in local controversy with local builder Hitachi rumoured to have been unsuccessful leading to complaints about jobs in the local community \u2013 but it is looking like their arrival can\u2019t come soon enough.<\/p>\n

Another oft mentioned problem is the old \u201cleaves on the line\u201d or to give it the official name \u201crail head adhesion\u201d issues. The Tyne and Wear Metro runs through many areas where there are plenty of trees which means during the autumn the leaves fall causing the rails to become slippery and thus causing delays. Metro do own three battery locomotives which have in the past been employed on Rail Head Treatment Trains but in 2019 these have not been noted out on the network although it isn\u2019t known if that means they aren\u2019t running or if they just sneak out when no-one is looking!<\/p>\n

Whatever the reasons for the disruption it is becoming an all too regular occurrence and commuters on the Metro are continuing to suffer as they try to go about their daily business.<\/p>\n

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RHTT have run in the past on the Tyne and Wear Metro and haven\u2019t always used the battery locomotives. In this view taken on 4th November 2015 4088 is leading the RHTT through Whitley Bay with loco BL2 bringing up the rear. Whether any such workings have run in 2019 is unknown. (Photograph by Trevor Hall)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next performance poster of the Tyne and Wear Metro is likely to be fairly interesting as there remains fairly regular service disruption, if their own Twitter feed is in anyway accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30922,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875\/revisions\/30922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}