Tyne and Wear Metro wroteThere are major delays to trains running between Monument and South Shields and South Hylton due to a failed train. Please leave extra time for your journey.
Tyne and Wear Metro wroteThere are no trains running between Monument and Heworth in both directions until further notice. This is due to a failed train. Bus replacement 900 is running between Monument and Heworth. Go North East are accepting Metro tickets in the affected area. Bus services 57,58,27 operate between Monument and Heworth. We will update you as soon as we have more information.
I wonder what the cause of failed train was this time? - Didn't have its Weetabix?
Andreos1 wroteIs it coincidence that this has all happened since the part privatisation of the system?
I wonder about this too. However, the recent problems have caused me to view this question from a slightly different angle. I was under the impression that Deutsche Bahn are quite well respected within the transport industry for precision and reliability. IIRC, this was the line peddled when the Metro became part-privatised. So, have these problems occurred because of Deutsche Bahn through poor maintenance etc? Or, was the Metro pretty knackered to begin and did Nexus simply palm it off onto DB to avoid the flack (and cost) of persistent system failure (which hasn't really worked)? - Now, I wonder whether DB really knew what they were getting themselves into.