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    Ardwick to get new footbridge

    Is this a serious question? Do you envisage a demand from the Peak District/Backewell area to Ardwick?
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    Network North Electrification Projects

    Surely it makes absolutly NO SENCE without extension to Warrington and Crewe
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Which former Midland Railway heritage operation would be considered Firmer?:D
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    What if colour-light signalling never happened?

    If the electric lamp circuit fails the driver will not see what aspect the signal is displaying.(at least until the train is almost at the signal)
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    More Delay for HS2, and how should we proceed?

    If you were traveling from Birmingham to Glasgow why would you want to go through Manchester?
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    Reinstate the line from Glazebrook to Skelton junction could ease congestion at Castlefield

    You may be interested to read this about the upgrades at Dore Junction https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/could-the-emr-hope-valley-service-be-improved-by-avoiding-a-reversal-at-sheffield.250300/page-2#post-6277005
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    Reinstate the line from Glazebrook to Skelton junction could ease congestion at Castlefield

    I don't ever recall seeing freigh workings from Tunstead working theough the Castlefield corridor. Do you have a copy of the working timetable for these?
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    Could the EMR Hope Valley service be improved by avoiding a reversal at Sheffield?

    This is the sort of thing I was envisioning, however living in Manchester, I don't know much detail about service patterns centred on Sheffield
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    Could the EMR Hope Valley service be improved by avoiding a reversal at Sheffield?

    Is it essential for a Liverpool/Manchester to Nottingham service to call at Sheffield? could Liverpool/Manchester to Sheffield and Nottingham to Sheffield be covered by other services?
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    Ardwick Station

    There are plans which involve a 42 story block just outside of ring road, duscussed on this Skyscrapercity thread. https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/former-williams-citroen-upper-brook-street-43-23-16-13-8-6-fl-proposed.2390065/
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    Ardwick Station

    As a resident of the large population centre (Ardwick, Longsight, Plymouth Grove etc) if I wish to travel by rail I catch a 192 bus which stops outside Piccadilly station. To get to Ardwick station I would have to get off the 192 At the Apollo 02 venue and walk almost half a mile with an...
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    Manchester Piccadilly P13 & 14 new platforms

    Screwfix and Toolstation are just 'round the corner, and probably cheaper than B&Q
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Excuse my ignorance, as this may well have been answered before, What length of train can be held in the loop?
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    Charter Trains to Matlock and Rowsley

    Didn't they top and tail their trains into Matlock, pre lockdown.
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    Birmingham Grand Central Station ?

    Quite a lot in the Castlefied area of Manchester in the last series
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    Geospatial Route Viewer

    Constructive Feedback:- I tried putting in Chester to Warrington Bank Quay And an error message came up saying "please report". I then tried Helsby to Warrington Bank Quay and also Flint to Warrington Bank Quay and they both worked.
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    TPE staff at Manchester Airport

    Nah,, wrong time of year, it was something more like this:- https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/JmAUtExmd3FJZohbqLTjYTGhZcXojyUFCWGzgm8g30zeGdWs5039IWBRHEVV7XpfKCBBImyi-GxPsJk-43fBlmxRvTUheGImES7MDw
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    TPE staff at Manchester Airport

    Am I right in thinking that ,on continental railways, the person acting in the role of as the dispatcher wore a red hat? That is my memory of travel on Swiss trains in the 80s.
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    Could we see tram trains at Rose Hill Marple and/or Marple?

    Even better still, extend it towards the Disley tunnel west portal and create a chord to link it to the lines towards Hazel Grove station.(giving Marple a direct link to Stockport.)

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