Ideally, I'd like to see a similar approach taken on all long distance lines into Liverpool, and other cities, particularly post-HS3 and other necessary improvements (eg the Edge Hill spur, reinstating 4 tracks Edge Hill to Broad Green when the M62 flyover comes up for replacement, some 4 tracking between St Helens and Wigan). For example, there could be 4 TPH stopping to Newton-le-Willows, with 2 from there to Bank Quay and 2 to Manchester, and 2 TPH semi-fast to Bradford via the Calder Valley: 4 TPH stopping to Wigan, with 2 TPH semi-fast to Blackpool / Windermere: and 4 TPH stoppers to Runcorn, with 2 over the Halton Curve to Chester, 2 on to Northwich and 2 TPH semi-fast covering the current stops from the Birmingham train to Crewe and terminating at Stoke. I appreciate these plans may be a tad ambitious.
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