Recent content by jonbyrne

Just stumbled across this story and was wondering if anything has happened in the UK which was similar? http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Train-Heading-to-NYC-Ends-Up-in-Philly-Suburbs-232601871.html

Here are the current airport route plans

Thank you I thought it would be the case but i just wanted to check.

Just wondering is it possible to use this return of this ticket http://www.brfares.com/#faredetail?orig=MAN&dest=HOP&grpo=0438&rlc=DBL&rte=0&ldn=0&tkt=CDR On the morning journey and the out on the way back?

That made me chuckle, we call him Sven in my family too, I used to get the train most morning when I used to commute from Mobberley and there are not many things he does not know about that line.

Are you a member of the Mid Cheshire Rail Users Association, I know they monitor the services and spend a quite a good deal of effort trying to improve the service that the line gets.

If it had stayed under £90 I would have been tempted to go for the Train Card over my Davenport - Manchester CTRLZ monthlies, but the extra £11.70 a month is not worth it as you get the same coverage at the weekends on the ticket I have.

I have started a reply to this thread but I didn't want it to sound like a I'm alright jack kind of guy. My experience with Northern mostly on my daily commute Stockport - Manchester. I would say 70% of the to Manchester journeys and almost 100% of the back journeys in the last 3 years have...

I think it does depend who is on but the usual team at Stockport are pretty on the ball, the afternoon shift seem to be a little less. That being said i cannot remember an occasion in the last 12 months on my way to work in the morning that my ticket is not checked at least once, usually twice...

Thanks it will be interesting to see if it changes. I like your signature, reminds me of the EMT Guard who on arrival at Man Picc a month ago or so who on a very busy 4 car train realised as we pulled into platform 14 had left her T Key at the other end of the train, it took an age for her to...

I travel Stockport to Manchester Piccadilly and back every week day in what I would consider a busy time (approx 0820 and 1738) and I have never seen the staff at either end actively allow people to pass, they just sometimes cannot deal with the flow especially 6 & 7 at about 0845. Same at...

Thanks for the replies. I just wonder how many people who are travelling into Manchester for shopping do not think about keeping it until its too late.

Good Afternoon This is a great forum, I have been reading it for a few months and finally got my self in gear to register. Anyway to my question, I travel to Manchester Piccadilly everyday from Stockport and on arrival in Manchester there are Nothern Revenue Protection Teams covering the...

Worst for me was not the journey or the bus but the amount of time it went on for. Back in the Summer of 2004 when the WCML was having alot of work for a month or so Stockport Station was closed and I at the time commuted from Mobberley to Stockport on the Mid Cheshire Line. So a replacement...

This is at an old Tram works in Weaste, Salford the Metrolink runs along the A57.