Now that Southport users have got their way over direct services to Piccadilly, I wonder if they are going to start complaining about the loss of the direct services to the Calder Valley they have enjoyed for the last year?
Now that Southport users have got their way over direct services to Piccadilly, I wonder if they are going to start complaining about the loss of the direct services to the Calder Valley they have enjoyed for the last year?
) nobody ever really cared about cross-Manchester local services. The joining up of services across Manchester has long just been for operational convenience. Manchester (if they're not going to Wigan) is where 99%+ of passengers from Southport are going, not Leeds.But the latter two have hills on the route...
At last a half decent peak service from Congleton! (It also lists an off peak Mon-Fri + Sat Macc-Stoke, not sure what that could be.)
I thought it was always the plan that the Middlesbrough-Carlisle via Newcastle Connect service would be routed via the Stillington branch?
That would make sense.
Does any traffic use the Stillington branch? I looked at RTT and see there were two ecs workings early this morning, both Newcastle to Middlesbrough, which went via Darlington.
170s were promised but they don't really cope well with frequent stops.
I hope you meant the extra semi-fast service. It'll be 3 years late anyways but I can't look this gift horse in the mouth.
which would be quite a mistake in reporting what has been requested - the OP got it right - a doubling of Sunday service to hourly, rather than the much-delayed second hourly train during the week.
I was half asleep whilst posting that
Now that Southport users have got their way over direct services to Piccadilly, I wonder if they are going to start complaining about the loss of the direct services to the Calder Valley they have enjoyed for the last year?
The Leeds and Blackburn services, which are being cut back from Southport to Wigan, are mostly going to terminate at Wallgate not North Western. Northern is concentrating Atherton and Westhoughton line services on Wallgate. The reason for using North Western was to enable future EMU operation of the services via Westhoughton, while avoiding the costly challenge of electrifying under the Wallgate bridge.
It would appear that Northern has given up on Bolton - Wigan electrification for the remainder of the franchise.
There are still odd trains during the day on the Stoke line which don't call at Stockport. I asked a driver and he didn't know why.
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Either: to confuse people.
Or: to lay to rest once and for all the myth that all trains crossing Stockport Viaduct have to stop at Edgeley station.
(Unless you have a better idea.
