That is correct. We are still awaiting details of calling patterns, which will become available when the full timetable is released for consultation towards the end of this month.
Indeed, although the consultation response document does provide some hints about calling patterns on the CLC line (my bolding):
Further discussions through the Task Force and TfN in relation to crossWarrington services have since created opportunities for rail links across Warrington. Manchester to Liverpool local services will be connected across Warrington once per hour. However, this requires some calls to be removed from established service patterns to improve reliability of a historically poor performing corridor. Further details are provided below
On the route between Liverpool and Manchester via Warrington Central, one stopping service per hour runs through from Liverpool to Manchester Oxford Road. Another stopping train runs from Warrington to Liverpool each hour, with a Warrington to Manchester service running during the peaks. Whilst this solution maintains cross-Warrington journeys through to Liverpool and Manchester, a reduction in the number of station calls (in comparison with the December 2019 timetable) is needed to protect performance.
A number of constraints on the Warrington Central route prevent more station calls being added to services on this line:
• The need to reduce the frequency of trains on the Castlefield Corridor means that, off-peak, fewer services from Warrington Central will run. This decision is based on the relatively low loadings seen on this route outside peak periods.
• The half-hourly pattern of services between Manchester and Sheffield means there is no opportunity to change paths between Stockport and Sheffield without affecting a large number of other services.
• Services stop-over in Liverpool for approximately 20 minutes. Adding additional calls that reduce the length of these stop-overs would introduce new performance risks as trains would not be able to recover any delays for their next journey.
• Calls at Warrington West station take more time than calls at other locations, particularly Liverpool South Parkway, due to the high line speed at this location. It takes longer to decelerate and accelerate trains when the line speed is higher and adding in additional calls would reduce the chance of a right time arrival in case of any delays.
The original Option B said that the Cleethorpes semi-fast, replacing the current Manchester Airport service, would make additional calls at Irlam and Urmston, which would have reduced the 20 minute turnaround time at Liverpool. From the above, it now appears that the Task Force has realised that this would be too risky, and so Irlam and Urmston will only get 1tph off-peak.
The original Option B also had an hourly all stations stopper between Warrington Central and Oxford Road, improving the current 1tp2h frequency at the minor stations. But this service is to be extended to/from Liverpool in B+, in order to provide cross-Warrington connectivity from Padgate and Warrington West. From the above it appears that the downside of this change is that this service will skip-stop between Warrington and Manchester, like the current stoppers, but with some of the minor stations having an even lower frequency than 1tp2h (perhaps peak only?), in order to reduce the risk of delay to the following semi-fast.