TFW Liverpool-Cardiff

[Llandudno]

Yes, there are 4 Merseyrail trains per hour 0700-1900 between Chester and Liverpool, but every time I make the journey the Merseyrail train seems to depart one minute before the Llandudno train arrives!

In the other direction it’s quite a trek from platform 7 to the Welsh end of platform 3B! With the added issue that invariably 2 car train from platform 3B is likely to be already very busy on arrival at Chester


I made the trip yesterday and sampled Merseyrail’s new 777 units for the first time. Quite impressed, ideal for local commuter journeys. but with stations every 2 minutes it feels as though it takes an age to get to Liverpool.
Plus, they get extremely busy and the clientele can be, let’s say, interesting….!

But, if we are to encourage modal shift by taking some cars off the congested A55/M56/Mersey Tunnel then only the operation of direct through trains from north Wales coast to Liverpool will have any chance of achieving this.

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Quite a few of us just been booted out of “First Class” on 197115 on the 1647 from Lime St. Zero branding still.

 

[Adam Evans]

If the train has to trundle from Parkway to Lime Street might it not be worth including Mossley Hill as a station call

I'd include West Allerton and Mossley Hill onto the TfW Chester Service given that it's quadruple track along both those stations and thus doesn't interrupt the other expresses. It also give those stations an almost Merseyrail-level of frequency into Liverpool City Centre as well as giving many more in the south of Liverpool an easier route into Chester and Wales. Sadly wishful thinking though.

great location for students?

The Carnatic Halls student accomodation complex was closed back in 2019 and is set to be demolished if it hasn't been already. That probably made up the majority of students living in the area.

 

[childwallblues]

I'd include West Allerton and Mossley Hill onto the TfW Chester Service given that it's quadruple track along both those stations and thus doesn't interrupt the other expresses. Would also give those stations a Merseyrail-style frequency into Liverpool City Centre as well as giving many more in the south of Liverpool an easier route into Chester and Wales. Sadly wishful thinking though.


The Carnatic Halls student accomodation complex was closed back in 2019 and is set to be demolished if it hasn't been already. That probably made up the majority of students living in the area.

But there are still the Halls of Residence on Greenbank Drive which are not much more distant than Carnatic Halls were.