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The RRB traffic around Stalybridge is causing a fair few obstructions, choke points on Rassbottom Street and the surrounding areas. I keep seeing buses parked in less-than-ideal places as they have nowhere to stable - blocking zebra crossing markings, double yellows etc. If Tameside council...

Bit of a strange situation I found myself in last night. I needed to travel from Stalybridge to Urmston, but I had to walk to the train station and I wasn't sure how long it'd take, and I didn't want to buy a ticket too far in advance in case I missed the train. (Not fare dodging! Just low on...

Yesterday I booked a journey from Urmston to Walsall using the forum's ticket site, and split tickets. 1723 Urmston-1733 Manchester Oxford Road (Y06432 to Oxford Road) 1743 Manchester Oxford Road - 1745 Manchester Piccadilly (Y00879 to Manchester Airport) 1803 Manchester Piccadilly - 1933...

Northern's direct award expires on Saturday. But there's no franchise any more, and it's already with the DfT, so what happens? It all seems a bit quiet. Why no GBR? Will we see the back of Arriva's branding any time soon? Guessing unfortunately not.

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/tpe-franchise-to-move-to-olr.248432/ It'd be nice if Northern could get a brand image and livery designed with an actual budget for once, their livery is the worst in the country by a long shot. No more App Store, no more...

As we all know, at the moment Northern are completely and utterly incapable of running services to the extent they're expected to. As such all sorts of services are replaced by buses regularly, especially late at night. The problem is the publicity. Northern publicise this through timetables...

Since the timetable change, the gateline at Manchester Victoria has stopped accepting my 16-25 discounted Anytime Singles and Returns, and Off Peak Returns from Manchester Central zone to Stalybridge and vice versa. The gateline states 'ticket not valid at this location', and the only...

I wouldn't be one to post a thread in the D&P section, especially one about Northern, but needs must... I should preface this further: we'd all do better in retrospect. Today I was travelling from home in Stalybridge to a friend's, his local station being Salford Crescent. Easy enough, that's...

I was waiting for a TPE 185 to go home last night, and when it arrived the front destination board read 'C185 Unit 127 Car 3' and the interior PIS read 'Install car now...', however the audio announcements were working as normal. New one on me - what had happened there? Have you seen...

What's going on here? The long edge of the canopy/roof on the platform's been removed again and all that's there at the moment is two lines of long, very wobbly cladding. I know the wood was dirty in places from exhausts etc, is it just gone for cleaning, being replaced or what?

Does anyone know any lost property numbers for TPE stations? I misplaced a bike (yes, I know) on a TPE service at Manchester Airport last week and TPE have been less than helpful. Phoned up a lost property number their Facebook page gave me, that just gave me the phone number for MIA ('as it's a...

As I got off a TPE service at Stalybridge tonight I noticed this service going the other way - it was running as a 158+153! Is this a normal move for 158s (Huddersfield-Victoria is usually 142/150s, 153s show up on pretty rare occasions) - I haven't seen a 158 in Stalybridge since Northern...

Fair bit of disruption on Huddersfield and Liverpool-bound services from Piccadilly around 8pm today. -Some kind of train fault on EMT put the Norwich-Liverpool down a bit. -a Manchester Airport service was 50 down for some reason -A service nearly 30 down at Piccadilly after late running into...

This is something my experiences today have made me wonder about. I frequently travel between Stalybridge and stations in the Manchester group with a full sized bicycle. But am I under any obligation to use the designated areas for bike storage? Northern trains are mostly okay but the section...

Saw a silver loco hauled coaching stock (LHCS) rake and matching Class 67 south of Manchester Piccadilly, on the throat but south of Ardwick, yesterday (12th) around 4:45pm. Doors might have been turquoise. Is that the Gerald set? Why was it in Manchester?

Going home from Manchester this morning, I noticed a sign on the eastern end of the platform at Ardwick. White, with a blue and white striped border and written in red, 'Your next stop is?' What's it for?

A couple of weeks ago on a Saturday, I spent the night at a friend's house in Rose Hill. On Sunday, when I went to go home to Stalybridge from Marple (Rose Hill's closed on Sundays), the ticket office was closed, so I went to the TVM - a Parkeon issuing new-style tickets. For whatever reason...

On the 16th of September my mother and I travelled from Stalybridge to Beckenham Junction on Advance Singles with a Two Together Railcard. The advertised route was: 11:50 SYB to Manchester Piccadilly, arrive 12:05 12:15 MAN to London Euston, arrive 14:24 14:39 Euston LU to London Victoria...

I've just been away for a week in London - on the way down it was an 11 car 390, as it usually is in my experience - I sat in the unreserved seats, at a table in F (MAN-EUS). But on the way back up (1400 on a Saturday), it was a 9 car. As it used to be (I believe), E on the 9-car sets was the...

I've heard a few different stories as to what's happening, so, as I can't find a thread I'd just like to check - is it that Northern and D(a)fT haven't come to an agreement for the next two years, and the franchise will not run past April 1, being transferred to someone else (Gov't?), or is...