Tyne and Wear Metro
Tyne and Wear Metro
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
Dont know much about the Metro at all, but to sort some of these issues out, as a lot seem to be trains breaking down, could they take them all out of service for a day and carry out maintenance. Bus replacement services I'm sure could be ran if they did it on a Sunday or even Sunday and a Bank Holiday Monday?
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
Need to use the Metro this Friday, wondering if anyone can help:
I've tried to use the website but it wont let me find the prices for students or 16-18 year old's ,only adults, can anyone tell me please how much it will cost to get from Monkseaton to Haymarket? Thanks
I've tried to use the website but it wont let me find the prices for students or 16-18 year old's ,only adults, can anyone tell me please how much it will cost to get from Monkseaton to Haymarket? Thanks
Re: RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
(27 Oct 2014, 6:07 pm)mb134 wrote Need to use the Metro this Friday, wondering if anyone can help:Believe you've got to have a POP card to be entitled to a discounted fare, so you'd be paying adult fare.
I've tried to use the website but it wont let me find the prices for students or 16-18 year old's ,only adults, can anyone tell me please how much it will cost to get from Monkseaton to Haymarket? Thanks
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
(27 Oct 2014, 6:07 pm)mb134 wrote Need to use the Metro this Friday, wondering if anyone can help:
I've tried to use the website but it wont let me find the prices for students or 16-18 year old's ,only adults, can anyone tell me please how much it will cost to get from Monkseaton to Haymarket? Thanks
DON'T use the metro if you can help it. You'll be delayed no matter what.
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
Just wanted to try and bring some balance to this.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nort...hr-7910120
This is on top of the £100k spent chopping down and reducing foliage earlier this year.
It isn't the only railway to struggle with leaves on the line, but it is one that doesn't benefit from the money or infrastructure that Network Rail can throw at their parts of the system.
Even then, trains are delayed, cancelled or timetables are extended to take into account slower acceleration times from stations.
As far as I am aware, the metro trains aren't fitted with the sandboxes that their mainline cousins often have.
In this weather and at this time of the year, low rail adhesion is going to happen - no matter how much money is thrown into combating it.
It is an age old problem and isn't going to be solved overnight.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nort...hr-7910120
This is on top of the £100k spent chopping down and reducing foliage earlier this year.
It isn't the only railway to struggle with leaves on the line, but it is one that doesn't benefit from the money or infrastructure that Network Rail can throw at their parts of the system.
Even then, trains are delayed, cancelled or timetables are extended to take into account slower acceleration times from stations.
As far as I am aware, the metro trains aren't fitted with the sandboxes that their mainline cousins often have.
In this weather and at this time of the year, low rail adhesion is going to happen - no matter how much money is thrown into combating it.
It is an age old problem and isn't going to be solved overnight.
'Illegitimis non carborundum'
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
(27 Oct 2014, 6:15 pm)Tom wrote DON'T use the metro if you can help it. You'll be delayed no matter what.
Didn't really want to, having read what I have on here over the past few days, however Google reckons its the quickest way to Haymarket from Monkseaton, and it didn't offer me another suggestion.
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
(27 Oct 2014, 6:23 pm)Tom wrote You could get the bus into Whitley Bay, then the 308?
It's 22 minutes quicker to get the Metro, so if I miss one the next one will still get me there before the 308 would, plus I don't know my way around there well at all so I figured getting the one train at one station that is likely to be signposted would be my best option.
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
(27 Oct 2014, 6:17 pm)Andreos1 wrote Just wanted to try and bring some balance to this.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nort...hr-7910120
This is on top of the £100k spent chopping down and reducing foliage earlier this year.
It isn't the only railway to struggle with leaves on the line, but it is one that doesn't benefit from the money or infrastructure that Network Rail can throw at their parts of the system.
Even then, trains are delayed, cancelled or timetables are extended to take into account slower acceleration times from stations.
As far as I am aware, the metro trains aren't fitted with the sandboxes that their mainline cousins often have.
In this weather and at this time of the year, low rail adhesion is going to happen - no matter how much money is thrown into combating it.
It is an age old problem and isn't going to be solved overnight.
This is exactly what should be happening, but isn't. This was suggested on Tyne & Wear Metro's Facebook page too... A revised timetable, to compensate for the slower acceleration times to pull away from stations, should be made. At least then, the timetable could be relied on.
At the moment, we don't have this. My views are unbalanced due to the fact I regularly use the Metro and I am therefore regularly inconvenienced; however, I do thankfully have alternative means of travel, should there be delays. It's suggest that many people do not have alternative means of travel (most likely due to the fact that the ticket they've paid for does not cover other forms of public transport), and this is why customers have taken to the Metro's Social Media pages in their fury at trains being massively delayed or being cancelled/withdrawn altogether. For the past few mornings, I have seen customers complaining that they have been stood at Metro stations for periods of half an hour on mornings with no Metros coming at all... It's just not acceptable.
The solution to the problem is creating a 'low rail adhesion timetable' which can be relied on - meaning that people can plan in advance and know that they'll stand a chance of getting to their destination on time.
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
(27 Oct 2014, 6:32 pm)Dan wrote This is exactly what should be happening, but isn't. This was suggested on Tyne & Wear Metro's Facebook page too... A revised timetable, to compensate for the slower acceleration times to pull away from stations, should be made. At least then, the timetable could be relied on.
At the moment, we don't have this. My views are unbalanced due to the fact I regularly use the Metro and I am therefore regularly inconvenienced; however, I do thankfully have alternative means of travel, should there be delays. It's suggest that many people do not have alternative means of travel (most likely due to the fact that the ticket they've paid for does not cover other forms of public transport), and this is why customers have taken to the Metro's Social Media pages in their fury at trains being massively delayed or being cancelled/withdrawn altogether.
The solution to the problem is creating a 'low rail adhesion timetable' which can be relied on - meaning that people can plan in advance and know that they'll stand a chance of getting to their destination on time.
Low rail adhesion timetables don't solve issues such as leaves blocking signalling circuits though.
You can have the best driver in the world slowing down approaching a station a lot earlier and taking longer to pull away from a station - but if the leaves are blocking the signalling circuits...
There isn't one solution - the fact Network Rail spend millions of pounds of money on several solutions and still can't crack it, tells me that Nexus/DB and their smaller budgets, don't stand much of chance either.
Just to clarify for those who are unsure.
Nexus look after the railway, signalling etc.
DB look after timetables etc.
'Illegitimis non carborundum'
Re: RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
Also, earlier There were no trains running between Sunderland and South Hylton in both directions, due to a Network Rail points fault at Sunderland.
AND: There were delays of up to 30 mins between Airport and South Hylton , up to 15 mins between St James and South Shields, this is due to a train being withdrawn from service.
AND: There were delays of up to 30 mins between Airport and South Hylton , up to 15 mins between St James and South Shields, this is due to a train being withdrawn from service.
Re: RE: Tyne and Wear Metro
(01 Nov 2014, 11:01 pm)Tom wrote Also, earlier There were no trains running between Sunderland and South Hylton in both directions, due to a Network Rail points fault at Sunderland.There have been issues with points at Sunderland since the start of the Season.
AND: There were delays of up to 30 mins between Airport and South Hylton , up to 15 mins between St James and South Shields, this is due to a train being withdrawn from service.
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