More like offering cheaper prices at a time less people use the train so it doesn't cost him and his cronies as much. It would have been a much better PR move to offer it in December when lots of people would be heading into the city centre! Not a surprise someone like Rotheram has done it this way though
I took advantage of this over the weekend. Haven't been to Liverpool for 30 years, but by chance coincided exactly with a trip I'd booked a few months back. Travelled from Hamilton Square into the city centre on both days, and each day we had near enough a carriage to ourselves. Surely it's not always like this at the weekend? Liverpool were playing at home as well.
I can’t speak for Merseyrail’s Wirral loadings on Saturdays but their Northern line operations are well used, particularly to and from Southport line stations.
Worth noting that Liverpool were playing on Sunday so no-one would be heading from the Wirral to the game on Saturday.
Were that this be true but alas too many glory seekers
777s have a safety system on board. When there is limited power from the 3rd rail they essentially shut down to protect themselves. They can limp to a station but won’t do more
Sounds like they all need to be given batteries and made into /1s then, that'd get around the problem.
What range do you think the batteries have?!
Coming from someone who drove them it certainly did happen with 507/8s, the difference being they tended to weld to the live rail and blow the equipment.
Were Network Rail made aware of and provided with the funding to do that? There isn't much point ordering new stock that behaves in a different way to existing stock if you require an outside organisation to change things to make it work and just expect it to happen.
It's pretty standard for most modern third rail stock, Network rail are fully aware. It's also up to Network rail to keep infrastructure open to traffic as it always has been, in defence of them though that's easier said than done with 3rd rail sometimes.
Fault with signalling system. Not sure even the fabled 507/8s would be able to run with that
It's NRs job to keep the live rail clear no matter what type of stock is using it and will already be part of any funding plan. 507/8s needed a clear live rail just as much as 777s do.
If that were true they would be building a larger capacity new stadium in Birkenhead Docks.
Whole network appears to be struggling with every line showing 'major disruption' and basically sort yourself out until further notice.
All Wirral lines suspended, and on the Northern line there appears to only be a couple of Headbolt services, and a limited shuttle between Formby and Liverpool on the Southport line. Very messy this morning!
As an aside, is it possible to use a battery unit to rescue another train, assuming that the issue is ice on the third rail, and would they?
It wasn't great yesterday with the only Wirral services being to Rock Ferry.
They had a couple trains running Hooton to Chester and EPort, supplemented by buses. They were trapped at that end so I suppose they thought they might as well use them.
What has the weather been like in Liverpool? In south Wales, twice this week we have had rain in the evening followed by a heavy frost. Tuesday morning was awful. Sheet of ice on everything. I saw several vehicles, including a bus, slide past the house with all wheels locked. Light snow or frost is easy enough to brush off the third rail. Solid ice, not so easy.
That's basically what we've had. Very wet for days, then heavy snow, then frosts and intermittent snow, rain and hail. I've been driving the rail replacement for Merseyrail this week. The area of South Wirral is still blanketed in snow and the ground is absolutely sodden. I got back to my car last night and had to climb in through the boot as the whole car was a lump of ice.
