The guard on my packed Calder Valley train this morning has said that there are problems with the axle counters in Standedge tunnel, meaning people are travelling via Brighouse to avoid the disruption.
It was the axle counters causing the problems on Monday, so likely a continuation
The line through Hebden Bridge is used by Transpennine Express as a diversionary route to Leeds. Are there not enough spare paths to allow them to run some services from Manchester Airport to York, via Leeds? The first posting states all such services have been cancelled.
I highly doubt it. During the Stalybridge blockade, TPE ran, IIRC, 2tph in each direction over that route, with a heavily amended Northern timetable. Even at that, a slight delay in one service threw the whole lot into disarray and I don't recall any of the services I took along that line on TPE running to time.
Besides which, with Ordsall Chord, the services to the Airport would have to reverse - also not likely to be possible - during diversions they didn't do that either, and continued onto Liverpool etc
Also, the York to Manchester Airport is the 5th tph that TransPennine run - other services still run the route but the York to Airport express service is likely to be the first to get canned in times where paths are severely limited
There is something of a very large difference between problems with axle counters and with a points failure. Were there two concurrent faults?
Could be down to delay reason and disparity with what has been entered. I do know from Monday that drivers were having to be talked past the signals at either end of the tunnel - certainly at the Marsden portal, there is a merger of the through line and platform 3 loop so the whole thing probably did involve points at some point along the line