palmersears
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Work appears to have begun on New Mills Newtown ticket office at last, with the entrance from the car park side now fenced off and a bit of ground work done.
Hindley station car park expansion has been abandoned because after 4 years of negotiation NR were unable to secure access rights from a local homeowner.
I'm disappointed that they have only put two in at Victoria as at times the 2 TVM's can have long queue's waiting to use them, when the old S&B machines were in, one was normally out of order anyway which did not help matters. There used to be a member of STM (as in was then) staff who used to stand with an Avantix for passengers to buy tickets from at times where there was excess queues but that appears to have gone and instead you just have to wait.I just thought I'd mention that the TVM's at Manchester Vic were replaced with the newer type at some point over the past few days. These photos were taken yesterday morning and, as you can perhaps see despite the poor quality, neither were working (not a surprise though given the number of faulty machines mentioned on this thread!) They both did seem to be in working order today however, so maybe just teething problems. These particular machines also accept cash payments unlike most of the new machines at other Northern stations.
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Noticed this addition to Adlington Cheshire on the 1st March, I hope Congleton gets one too (Ideally not one of those one-liners...)!
Kidsgrove and Macclesfield both have info systems (neither northern managed though) and I believe at least one other station MAC-CHU have at least a one-liner CIS.
(Seems odd that the least used on the line gets the new one first, unless installing them North -> South, I suppose if it breaks (as this one appears to have) then fewer passengers are affected.)
Yeah, I don't think Adlington (Cheshire) really needs a full one,Hope stations like Knutsford and Navigation Road start getting better displays than the single sided baby ones which you can't see or hear from most of the platform. It's not even like the baby ones need to go to waste, they'd be ideal for some of the very small stations which currently have no CIS.
Yeah, I don't think Adlington (Cheshire) really needs a full one,
Congleton, Poynton, CheadleH (does this already have some?) are stations that in my opinion definitely do need a full one on each platform.
The 'baby' ones could be used on the Cumbrian coast? I seem to recall Dore already has a baby one, Can't think of any smaller stations off the top of my head currently, Ardwick? Nafferton? Arram? Eastrington? Wressle?
Does anyone know when the platform lengthenings are set to start happening for the TPE and Northern train lengthenings.
Does anyone know when the platform lengthenings are set to start happening for the TPE and Northern train lengthenings.
Interesting that the plans here show an operational length of the extended platforms at Mirfield as 121m, so long enough for 5*23m services but not 6*23m.
Do the 185s have SDO / are they to be fitted with SDO? Else it appears that the station will only be served by single 185s on the TPE Leeds/Manchester stopping service.
Mirfield will also be served by the Northern Leeds-Southport service which I suppose could be a 5*23m 170/15x combination.
Marsden is getting platform 3 extended, not sure about platforms 1 and 2.
Suppose it'd make sense to close platforms 1 and 2 and just use platform 3 on a bi-directional loop, it'd solve the PSVAR/accessibility problem there.
The new ticket machine at Dunston, which has only been in situ for a small number of weeks, has already been vandalised, with the screen smashed. Not looking good!
Most areas of the North East are actually alright. Just because there are a few idiots in the North East, just like everywhere else, doesn't mean that the North East deserves less than anywhere else.And people question why no new trains for North East routes.
The new ticket machine at Dunston, which has only been in situ for a small number of weeks, has already been vandalised, with the screen smashed. Not looking good!