Commuters woke up to travel disruption on the Tyne and Wear Metro this morning after another overnight cable theft on the service.
No trains were running between Monkseaton and Wallsend in both directions due to a theft of 100 metres of cable between Meadow Well and North Shields in the early hours of Tuesday morning. It is the third time that a cable theft has occurred on the network this month, and though the Metro service resumed at 7.05am, the theft had a knock-on effect meaning there were still delays at 9am.
An attempted cable theft on December 31 saw service suspended for six hours between Four Lane Ends and South Gosforth. Thieves then stole 40 metres from the line near Meadow Well on January 5 causing disruption for six hours, and a further 50 metres from the line between Percy Main and Meadow Well again on January 6, with disruption for four hours.
