Recent content by bitmadmax

Thanks, so I'm presuming you can't just 'tap in' on these at the start and end of your journey with a debit contactless debit card/device like on metrolink?

Apologies if this isn't the right forum for this. It has been a few years since I've travelled on trains and last week I bought a weekly ticket from patricroft to manchester picadilly. However instead of a paper season ticjet they issued a northern smart card. When I was leaving picadilly I...

Well this weekend there appears to be just stopper trains running between Liverpool and Eccles

I remember reading in a press release that the ordsall chord will join the "castlefield junction" railway with the "deal street junction" railway. I was curious that I couldn't see a Deal Street in the vicinity between ordsall lane junction and Victoria on any of the old OS maps. Approximately...

According to RTT there was a freight showing originating Eccles at 10pm for Crewe but it was let out at 8pm 2hours early. Seemed well laiden. Would this have come from Weaste? What was it carrying and why would it show as starting from eccles not Weaste?

Noticed there doesn't seem to be any trains running across chat moss at all today - does anyone know the reason for the blockade?

So instead we will get a "swathe of devastation" (as you put it) right across a heritage site. Never mind though, because our city really needs 550 new rabbit hutches.

An MEN fabricated headline, actually.

Presming these will be "truncated" rides?

Isn't it a bit of a faff getting a train in and out of that station anyway?

Good. It's unpleasant getting a faceful of "vape" that's been inside someone's lungs. Also those people who walk round obnoxiously with a vape like it's a fashion accessory.. what is that all about

RAIB press release into the incident here Interesting that the initial findings mention the train was authorised to pass the signal protecting the points at danger..

Thanks chaps, that makes sense. It's nice that there has been some freight activity recently, promising for its future use I hope.

I'm not quite sure I understand this but the spur is a dead end, there is only one way in/out at Eccles. Whatever's coming out has to go somewhere, and looking at google maps and satellite the only way in/out appears to be the diverging track on the Manchester side. What happens exactly when a...

So is it the case that freight exiting the branch would have to go upto the LoS at Patricroft, travel to Eccles (not far I know) and then come back over a crossover to get onto the Liverpool track? Seems a bit of a faff :lol: