LNW-GW Joint
Veteran Member
The ORR has refused the London Midland application to run an hourly Birmingham-Preston service.
This would have been achieved by diverting one of the 2tph Birmingham-Liverpool services to Preston, calling at Hartford, Warrington and Wigan.
The Euston-Trent Valley-Stoke-Crewe service would be extended to Liverpool to compensate.
The reason given is that they do not want to decide on major capacity changes before the 2013 timetable review is complete - ie delaying tactics.
This is a pity as it would have opened up new connectivity at seemingly little cost.
We will have to wait for the WC franchise winner to declare their/DfT plans before the log jam can be broken.
http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/pdf/lm-wcml-declet-100311.pdf
http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/pdf/s22-london-midland-22sa-application-form.pdf
This would have been achieved by diverting one of the 2tph Birmingham-Liverpool services to Preston, calling at Hartford, Warrington and Wigan.
The Euston-Trent Valley-Stoke-Crewe service would be extended to Liverpool to compensate.
The reason given is that they do not want to decide on major capacity changes before the 2013 timetable review is complete - ie delaying tactics.
This is a pity as it would have opened up new connectivity at seemingly little cost.
We will have to wait for the WC franchise winner to declare their/DfT plans before the log jam can be broken.
http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/pdf/lm-wcml-declet-100311.pdf
http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/pdf/s22-london-midland-22sa-application-form.pdf