Northern Control Centre nr Ashburys

[tiptoptaff]

Hi all,

Does anyone here work in the above and can tell me what commuting to there is like? By rail, road or other?

Thanks

 

[godfreycomplex]

Manchester ROC (where Northern control is) is adjacent to Ashburys station and just off the Ashton Old Road so commuting is fairly straightforward (if a little traffic-ridden)

 

[Worldwide]

I often see northern staff being picked up by a mini bus in the morning next to Manchester Piccadilly I often wonder where they are being taken to!!

 

[driver9000]

I often see northern staff being picked up by a mini bus in the morning next to Manchester Piccadilly I often wonder where they are being taken to!!

If they're in uniform they're probably train crew being taken to Longsight and other stabling points to collect trains.

 

[geoffk]

I made my first visit to Ashburys station yesterday and most of the passengers I saw, in the hour I was there around lunch time, were Network Rail or Northern staff. The station is very basic and in a mostly industrial area, but there are modern houses quite near, along Ashton Old Road to the north and Gorton Lane to the south.

Most of the announcements were requests to "stand back from the edge of platform 1 (or 2)...." but there was nothing to identify which platform was which. Without this knowledge the announcements seemed pointless. NRE shows platform 1 as the Piccadilly-bound platform, but the TfGM website shows this as no. 2! I wonder if Northern can be persuaded to stick numbers on the shelters. There is no suburb of Ashburys and the station was named after the Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd. (so there should perhaps be an apostrophe, i.e. Ashbury's).