Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
Most routes have rather different services now to what they did in the early 1990s. Regardless of whether you take the comparison to be December 2019 or December 2022...
What's there now is surprisingly similar to what was there in 1998. Blackpool local via Bolton, Scotland via Bolton (though more frequent), Barrow/Windermere via Wigan, two Southports (one Castlefield and one Vic) and a Clitheroe. Two Blackpools rather than one, and more Scotlands are the main difference, plus I think the Blackpools do Moses Gate etc as the EMUs accelerate better than the Clitheroe DMU, and the Vic Southport ran via Atherton. Though the Barrow/Windermere is moving to via Bolton.