(03 Feb 2015, 6:01 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote That means they're just 1 minute late then... Frequency Gateshead to S Hylton: 12 minutes. Double that: 24 minutes - if trains are running 25 minutes late they're 1 minute late if classed as the one due to depart.
The reality is that they'll not really be running to timetable at all... The departures out of Gateshead at the moment will be something like:
South Hylton 20m
Pelaw 21m
South Hylton 21m
South Shields 22m
South Shields 23m
Sunderland 24m
Pelaw 25m
Pelaw 26m
South Hylton 27m
..then there'll be another huge gap in the timetable.
Oh, and let's not forget that the first and second South Hylton trains will get regulated at Pelaw, and people will have to alight and then you'll have three Metros worth of people on that example terminating at Sunderland (with Sunderland - South Hylton being regulated).