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The decision by the Manchester Rail Recovery team to take out the Warrington West stop from the TPE Cleethorpes - Liverpool trains (from December 2022, replacing the Northern train to Manchester Airport) is because they want 20 minutes to turn round at Lime Street (obviously assuming trains will...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/22/british-rail-logo-designer-appalled-by-greenA-makeover-mess

£78m (is that all?) to electrify Wigan to Lostock Junction. NR says "The track between Wigan North Western station and Lostock Junction near Bolton will receive a £78 million upgrade, targeted to complete in 2024/2025. "Through electrifying almost 13 miles of infrastructure and lengthening...

Does this sound just silly? Cutting trains through Oxford Road to improve reliability... (but will do nothing for overcrowding on the platforms) And options for cutting services to Manchester Airport - including one of the TPE, so only one tph on the £100m Ordsall Chord. Manchester Recovery...

What? Supposed to be three an hour (all the Northern services) but apparently Network Rail have knocked it back to two (one slow and the Airport service). Yet realtime trains currently show the times for the other stopper as arrival and deparure at the new station. This is the 19 departure...

I took my wife for the 1452 from Runcorn to Birmingham. The 1425 is still in the station, as an OLE indicator is showing a fault near Weaver Junction. Guard happy with her travelling on the 1425, which is eventually sent to travel slow to inspect the line (with a risk that there is a problem and...

Has this been aired? Why do so many freight trains avoid Manchester Victoria? The bulk biomass from Liverpool Docks to Drax, the Merseywaste trains from Knowsley to Teesside... It seems bizarre to take them through Warrington BQ to Hartford then via Altrincham to Stockport, cross all lines...

I'm going Warrington to Moreton-in-Marsh next Wednesday (first thing). I'm never sure whether the LM site is showing its own cheapest fare (even for Crewe-London - I use tpexpress and click their "slower routes" to find the LM only fares). I need a good price advantage to use advance tickets...

I'm staying in Carrbridge in August, and contemplating going to Kyle. You can book a ticket in advance for the down Caledonian sleeper (which became a commuter service to Inverness a few years ago) - but can you buy on the train? (Ticket office at Aviemore is open just in time for that, but at...