Service Disruption

[Stuharris 6360]

Noted today that the MM has been suspended between Birmingham Snow Hill & Winson Green (Outer Circle) due to overhead line damage.

What amazes me is that you never ever see anybody out & about checking the overheads. Whenever i have been in Blackpool, you always see the engineers out & about checking the over heads, adjusting the tension, checking the pantographs of the trams. Plus if there is a problem with the overheads, it takes them very little time to solve the problwm.

The latest i have heard for the MM is for normal service sometime tomorrow???

[Liverpool Street]

Means increased passenger traffic on the buses then.

[Stu]

Latest updates can be found here:
http://nxbus.co.uk/the-metro/information/service-alerts/

[Kevin]

Means increased passenger traffic on the buses then.

Unlikely, they'll all get the train Snow Hill to the Hawthorns and use the tram from there, it's only a few stops really affected

[notepanel]

Quite bad timing for National Express/the Metro with many people looking at possible alternatives ahead of the impending tunnel closures.

This will no doubt have lost the Metro a few fans, but it could have been worse! It could have happened during the tunnel closures!

[vinh1000]

been like this for few days now :@
good thing hawthorns to snow hill train exists

seen engineers between Soho Benson Road and Jewellery Quarter with tram 14 sitting there blocked

[Stuharris 6360]

been like this for few days now :@
good thing hawthorns to snow hill train exists

seen engineers between Soho Benson Road and Jewellery Quarter with tram 14 sitting there blocked

Do MM have there own overhead engineers?

[Tony]

been like this for few days now :@
good thing hawthorns to snow hill train exists

seen engineers between Soho Benson Road and Jewellery Quarter with tram 14 sitting there blocked

Tram 13 was doing test runs up and down that section this afternoon so looks like it has now been repaired

[D10]

Yes, it has been repaired, I was at Snow Hill (rail) Station just after 5 this evening and the trams were running into the Metro stop there again.

[vinh1000]

been like this for few days now :@
good thing hawthorns to snow hill train exists

seen engineers between Soho Benson Road and Jewellery Quarter with tram 14 sitting there blocked

Tram 13 was doing test runs up and down that section this afternoon so looks like it has now been repaired

Yah
Engineers were gathered around Tram 14 on that day orange hi viz as came pass on train towards BSH