Metro disruption is expected to continue until next week after overhead lines came down between Pelaw and Hebburn on Thursday morning.
The disruption comes just days before a planned price hike of up to 13.9% across the network, despite customer services director Huw Lewis saying that services in the last couple of months "has not been good enough". A total 800 metres of overhead wire came down between Pelaw and Hebburn at around 6am on Thursday, causing travel chaos on both yellow and green lines for many who rely on the service in South Tyneside.
The cause of the fault is being investigated and repairs are already under way, Nexus told ChronicleLive on Thursday afternoon. Services will remain suspended between Pelaw and South Shields and Pelaw and Brockley Whins until the overhead lines have been replaced by engineers.
