Manchester Piccadilly to Blackpool North

[168lover]

Does anyone know what normally works these services, particularly the 17:31 to Blackpool North from Manchester Piccadilly on a Saturday please? Hoping to ride on it and would love to try out a pacer!

 

[cactustwirly]

Does anyone know what normally works these services, particularly the 17:31 to Blackpool North from Manchester Piccadilly on a Saturday please? Hoping to ride on it and would love to try out a pacer!

Should be a 319? Now that Bolton and Blackpool have been electrified

 

[Trainfan344]

These services are now run by the 319s I've found.

 

[td97]

Airport originators (via Chat Moss->Wigan) are 319

Via Bolton->Chorley is mix of 319 and 156 otherwise. 150 if you're unlucky; no chance of a Pacer in my experience.

(Edit to add clarity for Wigan routings)

 

[Mathew S]

The xx31 services are a mix of 319 and 150/156 worked.

If you particularly want a Pacer, your best bet is to travel on a train from Manchester Victoria to Wigan Wallgate (there are four an hour, and you won't wait more than an hour for a Pacer to turn up on one I'm sure) where you can then cross the road and jump on a 319 to Blackpool from Wigan NW.

Alternatively, you could try one of the Manchester to Wigan via Bolton services (xx18 from Piccadilly or xx50 from Victoria) which are *sometimes* 142 worked. Then you could change onto the Blackpool-bound 319 at Bolton.

 

[168lover]

Cheers for everyone's help, ended up by chance more than anything having 142053 coupled to a 150 working a Preston-Blackpool North train. Tell you what, 20 minutes of a pacer at 75mph is enough to put me off ever travelling on one again. The amount of rattles, jerks and non working heating wasn't great at all!

 

[Starmill]

Should be a 319? Now that Bolton and Blackpool have been electrified

These services are now run by the 319s I've found.

There are often only 2 diagrams on Blackpool North via Bolton services worked by 319s at the moment. This is to change from the May timetable.