{"id":32914,"date":"2020-03-13T21:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32914"},"modified":"2020-03-13T19:44:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:44:45","slug":"in-pictures-driver-training-on-the-increase-on-the-tyne-and-wear-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32914","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Driver Training on the increase on the Tyne and Wear Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons often given for cancellations and service disruption on the Tyne and Wear Metro \u2013 part of an admittedly large list of late! \u2013 is driver shortages but as promised Nexus are currently attempting to do something about that. So far in 2020 the number of Driver Training runs on the network does seem to have increased and they know have the useful destination screen display of \u201cDriver Training\u201d where previously they often just ran with \u201cNot In Service\u201d displayed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32915\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=32915\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32915\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32915\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32915\" title=\"4002+4040-th\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4002+4040-th-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4002+4040-th-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4002+4040-th-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4002+4040-th.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unrefurbished pair 4002+4040 approach Callerton Parkway from the Airport on a Driver Training run. (Photograph by Trevor Hall, 25th February 2020)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons often given for cancellations and service disruption on the Tyne and Wear Metro \u2013 part of an admittedly large list of late! \u2013 is driver shortages but as promised Nexus are currently attempting to do something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32914\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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\/32914"}],"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=32914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32966,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32914\/revisions\/32966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}