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I was referring specifically to cross boundary issues in "taking over" those services. There's nothing about crossing the border into Derbyshire that require having their own TOC, stock or depot. Given that franchising as we've understood it is likely to disappear by the end of this decade it...

Of the eight routes identified in post 1 of this thread: Wigan – Victoria Stalybridge –Southport Glossop – Hadfield – Piccadilly Rose Hill – Piccadilly Buxton – Piccadilly Alderley Edge – Piccadilly Rochdale stopping services Manchester Airport stopping services So four (as defined in the...

Has Andy Burnham ever said anything about taking over rail services or tram conversions outside the county? There are places where that might be a reasonable course of action, but I don't think he's ever actually proposed it.

I'm suggesting building on the south east side of Northwich where the land is no more expensive, not in Knutsford. If you want a new town to be successful it needs to be accessible to these more prosperous areas even if people moving to the new town don't need to travel there every day. That...

Acton Bridge seems the wrong side of Northwich to me as the housing demand is primarily in Cheshire East, and it would be practically impossible to connect to Manchester from the existing station. Taking employment into account the only obvious NW location would be in Cheshire, because it's...

The obvious site for a New Town outside the South East for me would be somewhere in mid-Cheshire, which is well served with existing stations as well as major road links, is in an economically successful area with high demand for housing, but has relatively poor quality countryside/landscapes...

Slightly off topic question, but is there a reason that the WC and EC Intercity franchises were never integrated with the regional or fNSE services that they share tracks with in the same way that GWR has a single operator into Paddington? I don't necessarily mean all the local services around...

The plan is for a single next generation platform, presumably some tram-train and some just tram. The first lot of these would be intended for the Bury-Rochdale tram-train pathfinder, but I would imagine additional orders would follow. Given the problems the M5000s have had on the old BR...

Rail operations are not my area of expertise, but from an regional economic point of view many of the corridors that the Northern Economic Strategy are trying to use to drive regional growth are east west (Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Hull, L-M-Sheffield, Lancashire-M-Sh, Lancs-Leeds-Hull), and...

Perhaps Colne-Burnley could work if it's diverted to help connect the Pendle towns with better rail services at Manchester Road via Burnley town centre?

I mean they're not wrong, but the new stop would be between Clay Lane and the incinerator, so it wouldn't be much more convenient for the existing public entrances than Roundthorn is. It'll probably be more useful for staff and those working in the proposed commercial zone at the south end of...

It doesn't really. The social need is primarily already met by the existing route, whereas the closure of the loop is more about unlocking additional development sites at Wythenshawe Hospital South, Timperley Triangle, Davenport Green (the proposed HS2 site was already planned for development...

The problem is that HS2's modelling suggests that 3 classic compatible HS2 trains (2 via Crewe, 1 via Stoke and Handsacre) wouldn't provide sufficient capacity for Manchester's demand, and there is no more capacity on the tracks into Piccadilly from the south to accommodate the additional...

Thanks. I think I keep seeing "electrified throughout" written on press releases and thinking "Oh, cool, they must at least have a plan to have a plan and I've missed it" but apparently not.

I think I've completely lost track of how this project is structured, but do we have a timetable for even finding out what will be proposed between Stalybridge and Huddersfield?