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  1. Cheshire Rover

    Flexible Rail Season Tickets - 2/3 days per week to be introduced by June 2021

    ATW (Now TFW) certainly had something like that when I used to commute into Manchester a couple of years ago. Very useful.
  2. Cheshire Rover

    How could the Mid-Cheshire Line be improved?

    I believe one option is for the TFW services currently running through Bank Quay to go via the Mid Cheshire. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/manchester-recovery-taskforce-timetable-consultation.213089/
  3. Cheshire Rover

    How could the Mid-Cheshire Line be improved?

    Apparently so. Helsby, Frodsham and Runcorn East get a 2 trains per hour service to Manchester Victoria and Leeds. No more direct services to Oxford Road or Piccadilly.
  4. Cheshire Rover

    What train encapulates your childhood?

    At the end of our garden was the line from West Cheshire Junction to Mouldsworth so Class 25, Class 40 and Class 47 were the mainstay of my early childhood hauling freight just yards from the garden fence.
  5. Cheshire Rover

    December 2020 Timetable Change

    You should during Winter else your battery could go flat and if you haven't enough antifreeze in your coolant then that can also be an issue.
  6. Cheshire Rover

    Buying Cigarettes in the EU from January 1st

    Perhaps now the tax take from tobacco will increase as people can no longer undertake tax avoidance operations via the EU? It depends how you look at these things.
  7. Cheshire Rover

    Least Used Stations 2019-20

    Strong growth at both Helsby and Frodsham with the reopening of the Halton Curve.
  8. Cheshire Rover

    December 2020 Timetable Change

    Some more Northern services have dropped in. Helsby gets three services in a morning on the Chester to Leeds service, one of which seems to replace the TFW service that was at 0720 into Piccadilly with an 0729 into Victoria.
  9. Cheshire Rover

    "Fill-in" electrification ideas.

    Plus the canal tunnel at Christleton.
  10. Cheshire Rover

    Smoking costs and health impacts

    I used to smoke cigarettes and loved the nicotine buzz and that satisfaction of a cigarette and a beer or the smoke after a meal. Two things got me to stop. Price and my children being born. When they reached £3 a pack I got twitchy but when my daughter came along it was time to stop. What...
  11. Cheshire Rover

    8 Northern routes to not return to full service in December

    It will be interesting to see if the service from E Port is a useful one or a bare bones one. Thanks for the information.
  12. Cheshire Rover

    England & Wales Tracing App to be released Sept 24th

    At the pub I went to on Saturday you could either check in with the App or sign into a book. All covered off. The manager even offered to write our details in for us.
  13. Cheshire Rover

    8 Northern routes to not return to full service in December

    The Ellesmere Port to Leeds service seems to have been canned. I used this for a while when it started up as I used to work in Manchester next to Victoria station. There isn't even a replacement service from Chester. The evening service to Ellesmere Port still runs I note.
  14. Cheshire Rover

    Should we go back into lockdown at this point?

    I had a temperature and a cough with difficulty breathing at night. No sniffles, sneezes, aches or pains. Having had flu I know it puts you to bed for a week. I was able to carry on working. I was in Spain mid December so it might have Covid or might not.
  15. Cheshire Rover

    What hobbies do you have other than railways?

    Travel (well, up to recently). Angling. Shooting (mainly clay but some control). Real ale.
  16. Cheshire Rover

    Should we go back into lockdown at this point?

    But all it takes then is one person coming in off a flight who is infected and we start again. The only answer at the moment is to protect the vulnerable and let the rest of us get on with it. If we ever get a vaccine, then great. Pretty sure I had this virus in January and yes, I felt ill for...

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