Recent content by Paul_10

Potentially the last time we see metrocars coupled together on the system until the end of the year/early next year when the final trips to Howdon takes place?

I think Pelaw looks one of the worst personally despite the station being refurbished only 20 years ago. You got the glass for the shelter all etched, film peeling off, a very grubby looking floor and the automatic doors removed as they were unreliable mostly due to vandalism I would suspect...

Just wow, your on a forum where we aloud to have opinions/debate. It's all very nice that a metrocar is preserved even albeit it's very unlikely it will ever be able to run on its own power but that does not change the fact that the owners in my opinion have definitely milked the vandalism that...

Absolutely not, not even hinted that could be the case! However I have seen the owner now wants people to donate to help the museum to build a shed for the metrocar and yes, there is yet another press release about it with another pose Infront of the metrocar with graffiti on it. Whilst it's...

Oh it's clear alright, you have the owners bizarrely doing a pose Infront of one of the tags and the BBC posting a photo of the other. I mean given the publicity and the fact it's just left out in the open then this was always likely to happen yet the quotes from them seem to suggest utter...

I know this might sound harsh but the owners who have preserved 4020 are really milking the vandalism that has occured and come across as extremely naive in terms of going to all the local press and the local BBC and the seemingly lack of understanding why it's been done. I mean the people who...

In the least surprising news, 4020 has been tagged but as I said it's not very surprising when it's stored outside, probably no security at night and there's been a big deal made out of it towards the press. Bizzarely the owner of the place decided to have a rant about it on the photography...

I have noticed on my last visit up there that some of the 555s felt a bit on the warm side and the weather was average at best, one advantage with the metrocars was the open windows so even if you were on a warm metrocar, you know as soon as it moves the air would be blowing around and in tunnel...

Well there was the disclaimer that said there could be metrocars out after that date and that week was the last guaranteed week too see one. According to discord members, it seems the PRM exemption is for the whole system and not just the Sunderland section and that runs out tonight so one may...

Fair enough and I was pleased too see they didn't pull the plug of the service as that would of been a great shame if one person did spoiled it. Fair play to Nexus for arranging this aswell, it's something you could not imagine they would of done in the Mike Parker/Bernard Garner days I would...

Whilst your experience is not a good one at least as others have alluded too that Nexus has significantly relaxed it's stance on photography it would seem and the days of someone daring to have a camera in their hand and getting blasted over the PA are long gone. Apparently someone pushed the...

They did put a clause in there to cover their backs but with some of the postings from metro themselves I will be surprised if we see them in passenger service after today.

It will be interesting if a metrocar set does make a surprise appearance after today's date, could be one of those where we go a few weeks without seeing one and then one unexpectedly appears. Will also be interesting which units if any do get kept on for the RHTT.

And going by the message on the Sort out the metro page, looks like 4078/81 has broken down so will need replacing. Hopefully metro will be able to have a metrocar set for Friday!

Bit of ashame that quite a good number of them being taken away by the enthusiasts but perhaps not surprisingly that turned out to be the case. The reaction on the discord group is comical though, it's a bit of card guys, no one is going to get hurt by it. On a side note I was up on Tyneside a...