Ding ding we have a winner.
There has been a 30mph TSR on for some time with it being reduced to 20moh more recently. This was caused by a previous track lower to give the route the published gauge clearance to allow container traffic to divert through here. The drainage was never lowered and a sump was left around the underbridge. This lead to increasingly poor track quality to the point where it had to be renewed (the work mentioned here). I'm not sure where the 1km comes from, the renewal was about 500 yards.
Seems NR can spin an lack of maintenance over the years into "£800k investment"
The Mid Cheshire Line gets upto 20 biomass trains daily from Liverpool to Drax - the weight causes problems to the track
The franchise agreement of two trains an hour from December 2017 is still being held up by "risk at level/user crossings"
Recent service is going downhill due to driver shortages now Saturdays as well as Sundays
Severe overcrowding on school time / peak trains in both directions is made worse by sudden cancellations to an hourly service
Northern is getting worse on this line!