Metrolink boss says sorry after 'catastrophic' incident causes days of disruption
The boss of Metrolink has apologised after passengers have faced four days of disruption. It comes after an overhead line came down near Victoria station at 'the worst possible time' on Sunday , while festival goers were partying at Parklife and football fans prepared for Soccer Aid at Old Trafford.
Parklife organisers had planned for the event to take place with no trams running at all, with industrial action expected to take place on the same weekend. It meant that additional buses were put on to take partygoers away from Heaton Park, with 160 buses in use rather than 120 as normal, even following the late decision to call off the Metrolink staff strike.
The problem which engineers have been getting to grips with for four days began when components on the overhead line near Victoria 'tangled themselves' around the pantograph on top of a tram. As the tram moved on, it pulled 'huge amounts' of the overhead structure down, leaving a 'complex' rebuild job.
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