(26 Oct 2014, 11:16 am)Dan wrote Happy days...

(26 Oct 2014, 3:46 pm)Tom wrote Have the male announcements on the East Coast trains been stopped?

(27 Oct 2014, 5:55 am)danpick wrote Yes as it would only work with 4064 but it got refurbished but it still stays doors closing by the male announcer. 

(27 Oct 2014, 5:51 pm)Tom wrote Have a guess why the service is disrupted tonight...

(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 

(27 Oct 2014, 6:08 pm)Dan wrote Believe you've got to have a POP card to be entitled to a discounted fare, so you'd be paying adult fare.

(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 

(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.

(27 Oct 2014, 6:22 pm)mb134 wrote 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.

(27 Oct 2014, 6:23 pm)Tom wrote You could get the bus into Whitley Bay, then the 308?

(27 Oct 2014, 6:17 pm)Andreos1 wrote Just wanted to try and bring some balance to this.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/metro-bosses-bring-new-24hr-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.

(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.

(28 Oct 2014, 2:31 pm)Michael wrote Tyne and Wear Metro
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We are running a frequent service with trains running to all destinations but not to the usual timetable. This is due to low rail adhesion.

(28 Oct 2014, 3:18 pm)Dan wrote 'but not to usual timetable' - why can't this revised timetable be published?

(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.

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.