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I think platform capacity at Chester would rule it out at the moment. This movement would need occupy one of the through platforms for a good many minutes. There's also the risk, as with any splitting and joining operation, that you import delays from one service into the other.

I think you need stock with selective door opening for that (Beauly type of short platform) and most Northern stock hasn't got it. Certainly not the 156s which are likely to be used.

Yes, I think the same, but wasn't the problem preventing a more frequent service from Clitheroe to Manchester, a lack of spare paths through Darwen?

Does anybody know why this Liverpool-Chester service has been left with TfW? They should have been stripped of it years ago and it given to some operator with an interest in running it. The idea that they might one day extend it to somewhere in Wales is complete codswallop. You can't extend a...

It didn't sound as if Northern saw it as a re-hash of DalesRail. For a start, they're planning to run it year-round and not just in the summer. That itself makes it different so it's likely to have different branding. I agree that Saturday is likely to work better because more people will be...

I'd like to see Mid Cheshire increased to hourly on Sundays, but that's a different matter. This Ribblehead service is to operate on Saturdays only, or so stakeholders were told, so it avoids the Sunday staffing difficulties.

It sounded a bit different to that. We'll wait to see what they announce formally.

Watch this space. Northern are working up a plan for a Manchester to Ribblehead service starting this summer. Announced to stakeholders in Manchester this week.

I understand there is insufficient clearance in the Mersey Railway tunnel for overhead wiring. I doubt a 1:40 gradient is an obstacle to reopening Wapping tunnel, though, because both the Mersey tunnel and the climb from Moorfields to Sandhills are steeper than this.

That's right, HC is a weird terminal station now that LSP exists. When the electric line was extended to HC, it was the only available interchange with the CLC. And it was taken seriously. A facing crossover was installed on the CLC main line east of the station, and some of the fast trains...

Sadly I think the idea of extending to Gateacre was abandoned before the Hunts Cross signalbox was built on the line of route. I don't think it is on the list of potential extensions that Merseyrail are evaluating.

Though the 150s for which the service is timed are limited to 75mph (and have poorer acceleration), so there's not much in it.

Merseyrail is already on the CLC line, at Hunts Cross, where every Merseyrail train in both directions crosses both CLC tracks thanks to an absurd track layout. An extension along the CLC would actually eliminate the crossing movement westbound! 1704537878 2024 may well see the end of Sunak...

If you are referring to Manchester-Warrington journeys, the CLC route is much faster than via Chat Moss to Bank Quay, and always has been. It's considerably shorter and it avoids the conflicting junctions at Earlestown and Winwick which can add delay. Nobody on the railway wants to mess up the...

I suppose there was no requirement in those days for drivers to conduct a running brake test soon after starting a journey? This would have revealed to the Runcorn driver the shortage of brake power on his train and thereby prevented the accident. The same rule, incidentally, would have...

I don't think we know which station the OP travelled from and therefore whether the party passed a ticket office en route or not.

The e-ticket issue on MerseyRail is a known problem, known to MerseyRail too. I actually used one recently because I had no choice. I started my journey at an unstaffed station (outside Merseyside), intending to buy a ticket at the sole ticket machine, which was out of order when I arrived...

Regarding CLC extensions; I hear this is attractive to Liverpool City Region, partly because the next few stops east of Hunts Cross are in LCR, and partly because they want to free up paths on the Lime Street corridor for other services including freight. So the idea that's being evaluated is...

I read it as the OP bought tickets on the Northern Rail app then travelled to Liverpool Central. There are stations from which this would be quite normal, for instance on the Warrington Central line (change at LSP), or north of Ormskirk, and of course it is perfectly valid to buy tickets on the...

There was. I don't remember any details of the incident, only details of the diversions around it. InterCity services between Warrington and Crewe attached diesels on the front and were towed to Chester where they propelled along the west side of the triangle to the west of the station and...