Recent content by Ant158

For the X41 and X43 there are a couple of journeys that run via Rochdale Road in the peaks missing out the crawl out through Prestwich, not sure how much faster these are in practice. It would be good if this route was extended to Clitheroe again like it was many years ago, the train service is...

At least the route numbers are shown, there was a period where Transdev started omitting them for just ‘WitchwayBurnley’ or ValleylineClitheroe for example

Noticed today some of the platform signs at Manchester Victoria now have the northern ‘n’ logo on the right hand side instead of the expected Bee network logo.

With the Rochdale line closure coming up, does this mean you’d have to go to the platform at Victoria tap in then go find the bus, and then for somewhere like Central Park have to get off the bus and tap out up the steps before continuing your journey?

Are these Wigan to Leeds services soon to be split, with the Leeds section terminating at Salford Central? Wonder if 158s will still be used.

There are also the Scottish Transpennine services from Piccadilly that don’t serve Victoria

There have been some signalling/points issues this last week along the Clitheroe to Bolton line, my train to Clitheroe used Platform 3 which is unusual. Though I’m sure years ago Platform 3 was used more often for the north bound Blackburn trains. Think this changed when the passing loops were...

BBC: Adverts to return to giant Euston departures board https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy8we1yvvlo Looks like a full circle with the departure boards at Euston. Adverts set to return to the outer screens.

Bee Network signs being revealed/peeled at Manchester Victoria today.

Spotted 150225 on Headbolt Lane to Blackburn service today at 1pm

Cutting the direct link from Blackburn and beyond to Victoria and also Salford stations, aside from being really inconvenient for passengers wouldn’t be a great option. Most Clitheroe commuters would likely just drive instead as it already a slow unreliable, overcrowded service, add in a scrum...

Lancashire do produce timetable leaflets still, though these are not always available at bus stations. Clitheroe for example you can get paper leaflets from the library but not from the interchange as the ticket office closed. Lancs tends to produce them for routes where the operator doesn’t and...

As a regular commuter on the 6.51 service, it really does need more capacity, especially between Darwen and Salford. Passengers at Bromley Cross and Halli’thwood have near zero chance of getting a seat. Bromley Cross is also the first station on the line under Tfgm so has a lot of commuters...

On the Clitheroe line, the announcements sound like he is mumbling into the microphone with lots of interference. Langho (Lang Ho instead of Lang O’) and Whalley (Wheyley instead of Wall E) pronounced wrong. They should go back to the previous set with the male/female announcer

Manchester Victoria Platforms 3-6 Blackburn Platform 2