There’s a separate thread about the new fleet introduction, it suggests 3 units are in the country and have been doin various testing and gauging checks :
Its future is secure. Not impossible that there could be a dispute over who pays to put it back in a presentable condition but its future is secure.
At least 7 are complete. 3 have been delivered, 2 are at the Velim test centre, and at least 2 are complete at the Stadler site in St Margrethen, likely more by now.
The response to yesterdays issues was appalling, sadly can't say surprising though.
It's an old video, thankfully not today!
Only 7 complete???!!!! Metro is on course to fail completely by what I read on here! I thought at least 25 would have been complete by now!
Only 6 have been reported to have been seen, we know a 7th is complete as it was mentioned in a Joint Transport Committee meeting a few months ago. There could be (and by now likely are) more complete. It was nearly 6 months ago now that the last reported sighting
Well, they've stopped posting the fun tweets of everybody having a good time...
It has, there’s been a lot of flash flooding. Heaviest rain I’ve seen here quite possibly since Storm Arwen.
I say unsurprisingly as the chances of today going to plan with the state of the fleet was very low. The flooding potentially saved Nexus from the embarrassment of having a train fail (like one did at Felling this morning) and having to suspend services for that instead. The general public are a bit more forgiving when its not something that's perceived as Nexus' fault.
Was on the train at fellgate this morning. As expected it was full and standing to capacity and it was very hot. Did a few backwards and forwards into and out of fellgate station for about 20 mins. We had 2 people pull the passcom which didn't help things. We jumped off when we arrived at fellgate for the third time and the doors opened, as we weren't running but accompanying a friend (the friend carried on). However the whole thing took about 30 mins and caused large delays
We called at felling then pulled away as normal. Then instantly the magnetic brake came on. Waited for a couple of minutes and then the driver announced that we would have to set back into felling. After swapping ends (still in the platform) we set back to behind the previous signal. The driver then proceeded through the train to the front to pull into fellgate station again. However when we set off we stopped straight away as someone pulled the passcom. After it was reset we pulled into fellgate station and then went to pull away forward again. However the same happened. So we had to set back again and when we started to set back the passcom was pulled again. (I don't condone it but can understand why, it was very hot and humid with condensation dripping from the ceiling). That was reset and we set back to behind the signal preceding fellgate again. Then after the driver swapped ends this time via the track we pulled into fellgate and the doors were released again.
Not sure whats happening here, but you seem to be getting Felling and Fellgate muddled up. This incident happened at Felling, for anyone reading this post any mention of Fellgate is meant to be Felling. Felling will not display on Realtimetrains or track maps as its Nexus infrastructure.
Apologies for the confusion - this was absolutely at Felling - it was a long day yesterday
From what I know, and obviously I wasn’t there, there was a unit fault which required the driver to switch ends so they could carry out dispatch safely, the PEB was operated likely due to the conditions on board. The fault then reoccurred so driver has to step back into platform so they can again dispatch safely. Felling is always quite a difficult station for dispatch because of the mirror positions, and the sun hitting the mirrors too. The new fleet will hopefully stop this from being too big of a significant issue as they’ll all be done using camera, but the camera quality isn’t exactly 4k in all weather conditions
4059 and 4063 have been missing for a while, think all others listed as operational have been around over the last week or so
No problems - I had caused initial confusion with misnaming the station!!!
Why does that not surprise me?, last Wednesday I was waiting for the middle child at Jarrow, walked down onto the platform to find a half hour service as there was "availability issues" at 5:15pm got hold of said child to find that their train kept cutting out and having to be restarted and that nothing was working properly, no Onboard displays or announcements even from the driver, luckily they are streetwise enough and was on a train with teachers and pupils from their school to know when to get off as I can imagine for anyone not familiar with the area it would be hellish.
This is a really significant issue, especially with the fact a lot of drivers are new so aren't used to making announcements. Some drivers don't realise when there's no automated announcements, some are anxious of making manual announcements and some just don't see the issue, or will only announce the major stations.
The issue, as with most things, is Nexus. They've left it too late and now the system is crumbling. The trains are evidently broken but this was known to become an issue when Nexus decided to send the trains for another refurbishment, even so the new trains are going to be rattling through a system that has seen a slapdash refurbishment with some stations clearly stuck in the 80s with major issues forming, along with failing infrastructure.
