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Thanks for the quick replies. It was my first 319 journey and had never noticed anything like that on other train journeys in wet weather. it really was quite bad!
Yesterday on a journey from Manchester to Liverpool during heavy rain, the train seemed to be slipping quite a lot on accelerating away from stations, it seemed to struggle to get up to speed. It certainly sounded and felt like there was wheelspin on acceleration. it also happened on the return...
They can't even get it right when they do report it - the traffic lady on the radio has just reported the disruption as being at London Liverpool Street! Now unless there also happens to have been a wall collapse there, this is inexcusably inaccurate reporting. Very sloppy. I imagine now there...
In Lytham we see:
Blackpool transport
East Lancs bodied Tridents and DB250s
Plaxton Centro and Wright bodied Volvo B7RLEs
Also a Citaro has turned up at least once but they very rarely work the routes to Lytham.
Stagecoach
Mostly Enviro 400s with occasional Trident or Enviro 200...
Virgin, CrossCountry, Northern, East Midlands Trains ( Liverpool - Norwich), Transpennine Express (Manchester Airport - Cleethorpes) and Arriva Trains Wales (Manchester - South Wales) all call at Stockport. You're right there are very few that are served by that many. i can only think of two.
Oldest trains I remember travelling in would be the class 101s that still lingered around the Manchester area, in the mid to late 90s. They were about 40 years old by then.
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