Recent content by Syllopsium

There definitely should be bike provision, it's good for people to use the countryside. However, the peak bike use restriction appears to be limited to London and Cardiff. I'd change this to everywhere. It's a pain in the neck having someone get on a train carrying a bike that's taking up about...

Contentious headline, obviously the answer is yes. However.. Some older friends in the pub were discussing that there used to be a Bolton to Manchester Express in the days of steam which took 18 minutes to get in. At the time it would be to a station that no longer exists, but the closest now...

After literally years of not having evening trains past 9pm, and increasing passenger numbers lengthening the time to get home, if taking longer to release the timetable means more trains rather than another six months of a sub par service, or more carriages during peak commuter times, I'd much...

Were there a load of MAN routes before, as there's a load to New Mills etc now (although still precious little north of Bolton)

They're still at Blackrod, or at the least Southbound.

Oh, I absolutely will put in a delay repay claim (although I doubt it'll account for much on an annual traincard), and yes, 8-9am is unusual in having two southbound trains in close proximity so the impact is annoying, but not extreme. Of course for the passengers that wished to alight at...

I was following the lead of other posters and using May, but try May 13th. There do appear to be Northern entries, or is this being automatically carried over from the previous period? ..ahh.. it's too early, isn't it? Blanks if I try a bit later.

I see that non Friday weekday services after about half nine to Blackrod from Manchester will *still* be a rail replacement, despite all engineering works finished, and electrification being complete by that stage. Is there not a breach of running a franchise to continually not run trains, when...

You say that, but it's certainly not always the case on the Blackpool North line going north of Manchester. Until recently I also would have said that there were never ticket inspections on the last Friday train either, but on the one occasion a friend was travelling to my station our tickets...

I actually am interested in the underlying reasons, partly because trains are interesting, and partly because it might provide me with a larger stick to beat Northern with. i.e. Who is gaining at my loss? Obviously I'd like to be able to get where I want on time, especially when travelling from...

The 0810 from Blackrod to Piccadilly today was 'cancelled', speeding through Blackrod seven minutes late, missing Horwich and Lostock, and going direct to Bolton (departing there three minutes late). Northern's initial response that the service was 'overcrowded' as it was short formed (two...

The Blackpool North line stopping service between Buckshaw Parkway and Manchester stations had no trains for two hours this morning, the only reason it's not longer is the previous train was delayed by half an hour. An unusable commuter service, had to come into work via car. I pity the people...