{"id":594,"date":"2018-08-14T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:10:26","slug":"metrocentre-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/14\/metrocentre-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"MetroCentre Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I travelled to Hexham on the 09:52 from Morpeth. Following the May 2018 timetable changes there is no longer a through service to MetroCentre; passengers must change at Newcastle. There was considerable grumbling about this as passengers (including a young lady in a wheelchair) got off the train at Newcastle, consulted the CIS for the MetroCentre train, only to find it was the very same train they had just got off. &#8220;But,&#8221; said the staff, &#8220;You must get off the train, let us close the doors, wait on the platform and then in 10 minutes time a different crew will re-open the doors&#8221;. Northern are losing Customer goodwill on this one; let&#8217;s hope they can re-instate the through trains soon, even if there is a crew change at Newcastle. Incidentally, passing through MetroCentre, I noticed the CIS on the westbound platform is still faulty, as it has been every time I have passed through in the last 12 months. Is there a target for getting CIS faults repaired? Whilst on the subject of CIS, we travelled on 4 of the newer trains today, each with on-board CIS, but none of which were programmed to advise us of the next station &#8211; surely the whole point of having an on-board CIS?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I travelled to Hexham on the 09:52 from Morpeth. Following the May 2018 timetable changes there is no longer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chairmans-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}