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Heartbreaking weekend recently - the sight of passenger trains running through Middlewich between Euston and Chester/Holyhead, knowing they couldn't stop here for us and that we won't see them again until the next engineering works.
15,000 of us live in Middlewich. I cannot tell you how much money must be lost to sitting in the traffic here. Made all the more frustrating by the knowledge we've got a working rail line but no passenger trains!
There's no 6th form school/college here so our young people have to go out of town to study - to Crewe or Greenbank - not easy when you're too young to drive! Shame you've no passenger trains I hear you say
If you don't, or can't, drive then you're pretty much trapped here as our bus service is limited and could only take you - via the usual lengthy customer collecting circuitous routes - to another town with a station. While that works if you can't/don't drive it puts drivers off and they simply drive to Crewe, Knutsford, Manchester etc and needlessly clog up the roads.
It seems Manchester Airport doesn't want the 15,000 extra customers there are here; Knutsford doesn't want to cut, at least, 20mins off their journey time to Crewe (if you can believe it, they currently go north and change at Stockport) and Altricham doesn't want a direct link to Crewe. All very odd and not very Northern Powerhouse.
So, why am I here? For help, if I may be so bold. It seems to me that gathered here are all the brains and passion in the rail industry. So, how do we end the ridiculous impasse that is seeing the Middlewich Rail Link still without passenger trains?
P.S. I've put this tread here because for the Link to work for Middlewich we need our station back. it shut in the 1950s and has since been demolished.
Thanks in advance,
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15,000 of us live in Middlewich. I cannot tell you how much money must be lost to sitting in the traffic here. Made all the more frustrating by the knowledge we've got a working rail line but no passenger trains!
There's no 6th form school/college here so our young people have to go out of town to study - to Crewe or Greenbank - not easy when you're too young to drive! Shame you've no passenger trains I hear you say
If you don't, or can't, drive then you're pretty much trapped here as our bus service is limited and could only take you - via the usual lengthy customer collecting circuitous routes - to another town with a station. While that works if you can't/don't drive it puts drivers off and they simply drive to Crewe, Knutsford, Manchester etc and needlessly clog up the roads.
It seems Manchester Airport doesn't want the 15,000 extra customers there are here; Knutsford doesn't want to cut, at least, 20mins off their journey time to Crewe (if you can believe it, they currently go north and change at Stockport) and Altricham doesn't want a direct link to Crewe. All very odd and not very Northern Powerhouse.
So, why am I here? For help, if I may be so bold. It seems to me that gathered here are all the brains and passion in the rail industry. So, how do we end the ridiculous impasse that is seeing the Middlewich Rail Link still without passenger trains?
P.S. I've put this tread here because for the Link to work for Middlewich we need our station back. it shut in the 1950s and has since been demolished.
Thanks in advance,
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