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How do the loadings of the 0635 from Chester and 0821 from Preston compare? What is the seating capacity of a Northern Class 150?

To be fair yesterday in anticipation of a busy Saturday of travel into Manchester they did advertise which trains would be lengthened on the service update section of the website. A large number of services were increased from 2 to 4 coaches including those to/from Wigan Wallgate, Huddersfield...

75,000 spectators in attendance at Old Trafford yesterday. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- But aren't they allowed to void a day's PPM result in the face of exceptional problems?

Where will these units actually end up anyway, aren't they meant to be the only way of providing EMUs in time for the first stages of the North West triangle electrification?

If the industrial premises were to be replaced with housing in the future then the station would come into its own.

I totally agree, the railway is expanding and we can't wait for electrification to happen as those DMU units released will either replace life expired stock or be used to reduce overcrowding on services currently operating with far shorter trains than they should be. The extra services and new...

Is there anywhere else that the train could sensibly continue to and return from in that 45 minutes? Bolton or Preston? Would be better than having it sitting idle providing the trip time is not too tight.

And another problem caused by Northern's lack of DMUs. The new station at Low Moor in Bradford will only be served by one train per hour when it is scheduled to open in December 2015 and will run at a loss...

Reported in Modern Railways that the service will be operated by Class 456 units once they are transferred to SWT. Presumably through services to/from Waterloo via Richmond will end with those services starting and terminating at Reading instead. Will two cars be enough for usual demand?