So it is, I hadn't realised. There was talk we'd go via the Oxley chord instead but this way is prettier I suppose.
Have noticed on Journey Check many delays this week due to the Single Line occupation and the diverted trains this week. Tonight, I noticed that due to congestion 1V62 17 30 Manchester to Carmarthen diverted from Crewe via Stafford and Telford, so obviously Oxley Chord.
Have noticed on Journey Check many delays this week due to the Single Line occupation and the diverted trains this week. Tonight, I noticed that due to congestion 1V62 17 30 Manchester to Carmarthen diverted from Crewe via Stafford and Telford, so obviously Oxley Chord.
Many trains cancelled between Shrewsbury and Chester Saturday due to potential weather related speed restrictions.
Full details can be found on ATW Journey Check Special Notice and click on "here". There's going to be some overcrowding !!!
The black wrapping on one of the new speed boards came off in the strong winds today - proving that the plan for the line from Shrewsbury to Gobowen is to go up to 90!
Don't get to excited, I doubt it'll be ready anytime this year. Besides its 90 from Whittington to Shrewsbury.
To be honest I'd assumed they'd given up on it altogether, so it did make me smile to see the sign - the one uncovered is adjacent to (but obviously facing the opposite direction to) the distant for Shrewsbury. And yes I know it's not the full length of the line, not much point doing the rest with such close together stops and the 60mph limit on Cefn Mawr viaduct.
Any more progress on this?
The DDA footbridge at Machynlleth will have its footbridge open on 2nd April and UP trains will start using the UP platform again though no date on the elevators so we're still back to the situation pre works starting with no end date after all the disruption just like the Wrexham redouble!
The DDA footbridge at Machynlleth will have its footbridge open on 2nd April and UP trains will start using the UP platform again though no date on the elevators so we're still back to the situation pre works starting with no end date after all the disruption just like the Wrexham redouble!
Apparently the old bridge is rumoured to be off elsewhere???
You mean like the lift they put in for platform 4 at Wrexham General that was never wired into the national grid so it can't be used anymore after the local residents complained about the noise from the diesel generator?
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Why getting a train to Manchester and Leeds could prove a problem for Wrexham travellers
16:22, 3 Apr 2016
Updated 16:22, 3 Apr 2016
By Rhodri Clark
That's despite £44m of taxpayers' cash being invested in new track
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Why getting a train to Manchester and Leeds could prove a problem for Wrexham travellers
The biggest town in North Wales has been denied through trains to Manchester and Leeds, despite major investment by Welsh taxpayers in new infrastructure for additional rail services.
The new Arriva Rail North franchise, which began on Friday, will introduce a regular express service between Leeds and Chester via Manchester and Warrington.
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According to an industry source, when the new franchise was being formulated, the Department for Transport asked the Welsh Government whether the service should continue from Chester to terminate at Wrexham , but the Welsh Government declined.
However, the Welsh Governments version of events is that the DfT rejected the idea because of inadequate capacity for the extra service on the railway between Chester and Wrexham.
Last year, Network Rail installed a second track between Rossett and the outskirts of Chester, funded by £44m from the Welsh Government.
There are concerns on both sides of the border
At the launch ceremony, ministers said the new track would allow hourly trains to run between North and South Wales.
Well, if the Welsh Government truely did try to get the new Northern to extend their Manchester-Chester service to Wrexham then maybe WAG have finally twigged that 0.5tph Holyhead-Cardiff is excessive and north Wales needs better links with England instead. The quoted article however paints a rather more confused picture, and doesn't mention the other issue which is north Wales electrification. Apparently the Welsh Government recently submitted a business case for this, but I can't find any details of what the case entails (eg. would it only be Euston services using the wires from Holyhead to Llandudno Junction?)Some more rumblings about Wrexham redoubles failings with suggestion that Welsh Government tried to get Arriva North interested in extending Leeds to Chester Northern Connect service to Wrexham.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/getting-train-manchester-leeds-could-11130771
North Wales to South Wales traffic accounts for just 3 % of North Wales rail use but whole redouble is on premise an hourly service from north to south is needed.
Well, if the Welsh Government truely did try to get the new Northern to extend their Manchester-Chester service to Wrexham then maybe WAG have finally twigged that 0.5tph Holyhead-Cardiff is excessive and north Wales needs better links with England instead. The quoted article however paints a rather more confused picture, and doesn't mention the other issue which is north Wales electrification. Apparently the Welsh Government recently submitted a business case for this, but I can't find any details of what the case entails (eg. would it only be Euston services using the wires from Holyhead to Llandudno Junction?)
An interesting suggestion though that Merseytravel might have be willing to fund a new bridge for the full redouble, on that logic wouldn't it make more sense if you were to extend Northern's service to extend it to Llandudno? Then the W&B franchise services would become Holyhead-Manchester and Cardiff-Liverpool via the Halton curve?
Well, if the Welsh Government truely did try to get the new Northern to extend their Manchester-Chester service to Wrexham then maybe WAG have finally twigged that 0.5tph Holyhead-Cardiff is excessive and north Wales needs better links with England instead. The quoted article however paints a rather more confused picture, and doesn't mention the other issue which is north Wales electrification. Apparently the Welsh Government recently submitted a business case for this, but I can't find any details of what the case entails (eg. would it only be Euston services using the wires from Holyhead to Llandudno Junction?)
An interesting suggestion though that Merseytravel might have be willing to fund a new bridge for the full redouble, on that logic wouldn't it make more sense if you were to extend Northern's service to extend it to Llandudno? Then the W&B franchise services would become Holyhead-Manchester and Cardiff-Liverpool via the Halton curve?
Well, if the Welsh Government truely did try to get the new Northern to extend their Manchester-Chester service to Wrexham then maybe WAG have finally twigged that 0.5tph Holyhead-Cardiff is excessive and north Wales needs better links with England instead. The quoted article however paints a rather more confused picture, and doesn't mention the other issue which is north Wales electrification. Apparently the Welsh Government recently submitted a business case for this, but I can't find any details of what the case entails (eg. would it only be Euston services using the wires from Holyhead to Llandudno Junction?)
An interesting suggestion though that Merseytravel might have be willing to fund a new bridge for the full redouble, on that logic wouldn't it make more sense if you were to extend Northern's service to extend it to Llandudno? Then the W&B franchise services would become Holyhead-Manchester and Cardiff-Liverpool via the Halton curve?
North Wales electrification is, I suspect, playing a bit part in the services from Leeds to Chester or Wrexham.
DfT wants to electrify Crewe to Chester, it has an excellent business case (unsurprisingly, given the number of services which use or terminate at Chester). Wales wants to electrify the entire route, which despite enormous fudging by WAG, is still below 1.0 for its BCR.
The result is nobody can agree on compensation or an appropriate distribution of costs, and it's a bit of a mess, really.
Some more rumblings about Wrexham redoubles failings with suggestion that Welsh Government tried to get Arriva North interested in extending Leeds to Chester Northern Connect service to Wrexham.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/getting-train-manchester-leeds-could-11130771
The new Arriva Rail North franchise, which began on Friday, will introduce a regular express service between Leeds and Chester via Manchester and Warrington.
More services and faster journeys: A 12 per cent increase in the number of services by 2019 giving passengers greater choice with over 2,000 more services each week. Beginning in December 2017, new timetables will also provide 100 new through journey opportunities across Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and other regional hubs.
Anyone know what the running arrangements are for this new service (had a quick look on Rail Journey Planner and couldn't find any evidence of a direct service between Chester and Leeds)?
Arriva themselves seem fairly coy about the matter (unless Chester is regarded as a so called "regional hubs"):