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As a resident on the Bury line I'm very happy with this change. Evening and Sunday services (when the directs don't run) are often hit by overcrowding due to only single units running. This change means we'll get doubles running all day, all week, rather than just the middle of the day. The...

As a former resident of Monton I've thought very hard about how this route could possibly be reopened as either NR, or Metrolink with a view to eventual conversion of the Leigh Guided Busway. The conclusion was that getting the line from Monton Green to the Chat Moss line would require far too...

Purely anecdotal, however I'm a regular user of Angmering station. I wouldn't say it's particularly noisy station, and as previous posters have said pretty much everything stops there throughout the day and into the evening, aside from a very small number of movements.

The introduction of tap in tap out is one of the best things Metrolink has ever done. There was plenty of occasions before it was introduced where I missed a tram due to queuing at the ticket machines. Now the whole experience is incredibly easy. For out of towners its even easier... one of the...

Lived in Preston or Manchester most of my life, but never travelled on the Bolton-Blackburn route.

I had always wondered why the Farington Curve (northbound from the WCML to the East Lancs Line) was wired, however what has been said here makes sense. The curve is electrified for about 1km, all the way to the point where it joins the East Lancashire line, ending at a small siding that can be...

I don't know if it's just workplace gossip, but I was sat next to the train manager office on a return journey last Thursday night (after the heavy delays out of Euston due to fatality at Watford) with 4 AWC crew members sat behind me. One of them mentioned that the unit had been pulled from...

Basically this. You can see from the image below that the areas above P5/P6 are under the main structure of the arena. A shame as the open section makes a really positive difference.

I've used Avanti around 25 times since the new year and I've only seen the service active twice in all those journeys. On one of those occasions my order was cancelled and then the whole service was made unavailable. I'm guessing that the service was mistakenly left active after leaving...

The 4 Northern trains I've used between Wednesday and Friday (between Westhoughton and Manchester) have all had staff doing frequent walks through the carriages selling/checking tickets, so there has still be plenty of opportunities to buy before getting to your destination. Both ticket machines...

As a resident of Westhoughton, Class 769's going into service on the Alderley Edge-Southport route. Sadly I'm due to move away in the next couple of months so I probably won't be around to see them go live!

Rugby for me, especially platforms 5/6. Similarly to Manchester Picc 13/14 raised and exposed to the elements.

TfGM now saying on their website that this will go live on Monday.

Agreed. As an ex-Hinckley resident, I would have used the railways a lot more than I did if such a service existed.

Apologies if it has already been mentioned, but wouldn't it be better to keep the Manchester - Scotland express routes running via the Chat Moss line? Is the demand for Bolton > Scotland (and vice versa) such that changing at Preston would be too much hassle? Running those trains via Chat Moss...

I'd like to think this would lead to service improvement. Faster acceleration could lead to more stopping services on the line, eliminating the pathetic 2 hourly service at a few of the stations on the route.

I was just about to put Denton and Reddish South as only having trains to Stalybridge.... didn't realise a bloody return service had been introduced as part of the May timetable changes!

Seems to work okay for the weekly bitumen train on the Ribble Steam Railway, but I believe a company was set up to haul the train for the last section of its run.

I used Preston for the first time in a while tonight to catch a service to London. After being dropped off I was surprised to be greeted by a train standing at platform 7. Turns out it was a pair of out of service 319’s, however that’s the first time I can recall seeing a passenger train using...

As a Hinckley resident I'd like to see the Birmingham - Leicester service increased to a 2tph service during the day (including Saturdays), but ideally I'd like to see the route transferred to EMT.