(6 hours ago)DeltaMan wrote I'm not being funny but the Great North Run is the one big day in the year NEXUS has, and the new Trains were not procured to cope with that.
What a joke of an organisation
BBC News - New Metro trains adapted over Great North Run weight fears - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgqe82qd71o
This is reportedly an issue with the 777s also, so not really a Nexus issue is it.
Nexus and Stadler seem to have been pretty proactive here, and evidently this worked as a temporary solution. The fact that they've been used on match days etc. without the plate and without issue suggests that this is only a potential issue in the most extreme of situations.
They're damned if they do and damned if they don't with some folk...