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What services/diagrams will Northern's 323s be allocated to this Saturday? I'm planning on being out and about this weekend and am mainly after the ones that run to/fron Liverpool Lime Street
Is a Manchester-Derby ticket valid via Crewe?
I know its valid via Stoke but not to sure on the Crewe option, I did do the full route from Derby-Manchester via Crewe last Saturday but there was no ticket check from Stoke to Crewe on EMT service and no ticket check on Virgin West Coast service...
Yesterday I bought what I thought was my usual ticket (Adult Single Lime Street-Manchester with Disabled Railcard) from the one of the new machines at Lime Street, everything was going fine until I was on 19:52 Lime Street-Nottingham East Midlands Trains service when during a ticket check it was...
Does anybody know what routes a Manchester-Derby return is valid on? Is it just:
Manchester-Derby via Stoke
Manchester-Derby via Sheffield
Is it actually valid via Nottingham on EMT although I doubt it with the train not serving Derby first
Seems to be major problems at Stoke-On-Trent continuing throughout the day as overhead wires are down in the following locations:
Stoke-On-Trent and Kidsgrove:
Damage to the overhead electric wires between Stoke-on-Trent and Kidsgrove is causing disruption to trains between Stoke-on-Trent and...
On 14 January there's a 09:15 Manchester-Edinburgh service running via Crewe due to engineering works will this have TPE Crewe's throughout as I didnt realise TPE sign via Crewe also why is this the only TPE train of the day running via Crewe
This Saturday I've booked to go to Wolverhampton to visit a friend, thing is I've booked it on TrainSplit site, going down is fine but I'm booked all the way back (via Stafford) on 19:15 XC Wolverhampton-Manchester Piccadilly service which turns out now isn't running on Saturday due to stike...
Does anybody know what's booked to operate this service? Is it booked a 9 car Pendalino or a 11 car Pendalino? Only last night it was a 9 car and fairly full (well I think every seat was took) and there were some people having to stand
Is there an actual problem with the signalling at Heald Green at the moment only it seems to be either a daily or weekly occurance that its failing at the moment meaning for an hour or sometimes more there's no trains from Piccadilly-Airport and same in reverse, so far this week there's been...
Not sure if this is in the right place but here goes:
How often does it happen that conductors are given the wrong docket/information (or whatever it is) for the service their supposed to be working?
I only ask as I was out yesterday and caught 1N61 Heald Green-Blackpool North & Windermere...
I've never done this before and was wondering what routes are available to me for travelling from Manchester-Derby, I know the obvious via Sheffield but am I right in thinking that via Stoke-On-Trent is valid aswell, also is via Sheffield and Nottingham Valid aswell?
Yesterday I bought a Return to Wolverhampton (Any Permitted Route) and caught 08:30 Manchester-Shrewsbury service as far as Crewe and the next London Midland service to Wolverhampton, now the query I've got is the ticket valid via Shrewbury or not? Just that the guard on the ATW service said it...
How long have Northern Staff being working the above (Trans Pennine Scotland services) the reason for the query is that I was at Piccadilly Station on Saturday and 10:16 service to Edinburgh came in and I was surprised to see that the Conductor was in full Northern Rail Uniform complete with...
Just found the following on Manchester Evening News Website:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/live-updates-manchester-piccadilly-train-11034442
Question is with the amount of fans they've got in the station how are they planning on getting them all off safely...
Does anybody know what's causing the problem between Wigan and Preston this morning all National Rail says is that Emergency services are dealing with an Incident and the time of clearance keeps going up, at first it was 09:00 and now their saying the line/s won't be back open until 10:00 at the...
I was wondering if someone could help me, a 15 year old friend of mine was travelling on Merseyrail for the first time this morning and he accidently put his feet on the seat in front of him and unfournatly for him he got court by 2 Merseyrail enforcement offices who took down his details, the...
Problems allday today on Huddersfield line due to problems with lineside equipment near Stalybridge means delays and diversions to all services running via Huddersfield and Stalybridge with the following happening:
Manchester Victoria-Leeds diverted not calling at Huddersfield...
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