Northern services are terminating at Hunts Cross (CLC) and St Helens Junction (Chat Moss).
Would imagine the 4th track at Huyton will be commissioned that week then.
Some timings are now on RTT for the blockade. Heres South Parkway for the Monday.
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced/LPY/2017/10/02/0600-2000?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt
The Virgin services look like they head towards Liverpool out of platform 4 then turnround and head back through the station non stop.
Weren't there supposed to be additional Merseyrail trains running non-stop from Parkway to Central etc?
Some timings are now on RTT for the blockade. Heres South Parkway for the Monday.
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced/LPY/2017/10/02/0600-2000?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt
The Virgin services look like they head towards Liverpool out of platform 4 then turnround and head back through the station non stop.
Yes! The crossover is north of the station hence 5 minutes stay at the signal for the crossover to allow driver to move positions.So does that mean they come in from London and terminate on the down slow, whose platform (4) is being temporarily extended for the duration, and then leave from the same platform for London, which requires a reversal north of the station because 4 isn't reversible for a southbound departure?
Yes! The crossover is north of the station hence 5 minutes stay at the signal for the crossover to allow driver to move positions.
The first crossover on the down slow line after LSP going south is pass Speke Junction near to Garston Car Terminal and that section would be not bi-directional as far as I am aware
Seems as though they are coming in on two and standing on two with a train passing through them like a ghost . They must be shunting. Wonder when the headshunt was last used?
Well, I'll ask the question: will these routes be bi-di after the resignalling or is it just being done like-for-like?
The construction of a major interchange at Allerton/Parkway was not on the cards when the line was last resignalled for the original electrification in 1962.
In fact at that time hardly anything moved between the LNWR and CLC routes.
Merseytravel now have a page about the Lime Street work, with some quite useful links:
http://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/travel-updates/Pages/Lime-Street-Upgrade.aspx
Coach
Taking a coach service is another alternative during the Lime St works.
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National Express and Megabus operate services to and from Liverpool and other locations across the Liverpool City Region. For more information visit the National Express or Megabus websites.
So it will be only be a total closure of 9 days after all, if you are travelling from St Helens.
It looks like a full service via Huyton from Monday October 9.
There don't seem to be any diverted Virgin services, so VT must have decided to stick with the South Parkway reversal throughout the blockade, rather than diverting via Warrington BQ into Lime St.
PS Actually there is one VT service, an ECS from Edge Hill to Preston, via Golborne.
I don't recall a routeing like this before, they normally run via Crewe.
There was a notice up at Liverpool South Parkway yesterday which mentioned platform extension work there.
Is this related to the blockade or some other plan?
Yes! The crossover is north of the station hence 5 minutes stay at the signal for the crossover to allow driver to move positions.
The first crossover on the down slow line after LSP going south is pass Speke Junction near to Garston Car Terminal and that section would be not bi-directional as far as I am aware
(see about 3 pages previous in the thread).
Unless something more permanent has been announced it's a temporary extension to platform 4 to allow Pendolinos to terminate whilst Lime Street is closed (see about 3 pages previous in the thread).
I had a peek today through the hoarding - quite a lot of what was the centre road between 7 and 8 has now been excavated down to about track level.
I thought that it was only a single road which was about one carriage length through the arch but I may be wrong. . I remember seeing circus elephants coming out of a coach there in the 1950s and then being walked through the streets to Sefton Park.If I remember correctly, years ago that centre road was only a two bay platform about 50/60 yards long, which was then filled in. Can recall sometime in the late 60's loading a carriage up with scenery from the Empire Theatre.
I love your comment, it has made me laugh! Certainly an interesting image and actually see what it was like. Taken in the early 60's too. Thank You.It seems that both 8A Rail and myself were wrong. It was single line through the arch with a set of points to two short sidings. See photograph.
I love your comment, it has made me laugh! Certainly an interesting image and actually see what it was like. Taken in the early 60's too. Thank You.