Recent content by MarkAshmore

Mossley and Greenfield are in the top third busiest stations in Greater Manchester, and that is with just an hourly service. Every other busier station bar two north of Bolton have a more frequent service. Increasing capacity on fast TPE trains would have no effect on loadings on the stoppers...

■Six fast trains an hour between Leeds and Manchester (as opposed to four now) ■Journey times between Leeds and Manchester could be reduced by about 10 minutes. What worries local rail users at the busy stations between Stalybridge and Huddersfield is that there is no commitment to...

This evening Weds 11/1/12 Mark Barker of Northern Rail talking to the local RUG said that there would be a complete blockade at Stalybridge later this year from October 27th to November 4th inclusive as part of the station layout remodelling.

I wish I could make more sense of the above layout. In particular which trains would go via which platforms? The suggestion seems to be that only Platform 4 would not be bi-directional. It looks like the four proposed expresses from Victoria per hour in each direction would race through...

Issues for local RUG include that Greenfield and Mossley are two of the busiest stations in Gtr Manchester that have just an hourly service. There is pent up demand there if the service was improved. Can a half-hourly stopping service be timetabled without opening the two bores? Also current...

The RUG for this bit of line hasn't heard anything of this. There is about 9 months of weekend work at Stalybridge station as part of the Northern Hub and line speed increases.

Problems with idea of trams to Diggle 1) TIME - A tram is likely to take over an hour into Manchester rather than the 25/30 minutes from current stations. Having to changing at Stalybridge would not save much time compared with staying on a tram. Who would use it? 2) The path problem on the...