York - Blackpool is no more. It isn't a casuality of the temporary timetable. It might return in December but based on what Northern have done, i.e. keep a stopping service between Leeds and York in the original path but start it from Manchester, and have the return run as a York - Huddersfield via Brighouse, I'm really not confident in the slightest York - Blackpool will return in the short term, if at all.
For what it's worth; the Bolton corridor appears to be bustituted each weekend continuing to end Jul. Weekend of 4/5th Aug apparently is being run with trains. There's novel; put the flags out...
From what I can see; it still remains a "Northern Connect" route. Likelihood is that it will be reinstated come Dec 18. Unless anyone else knows different...
You make the assumption that we design the services.....
That's a rather thoughtless rant, many people involved in these timetables contribute here and are very professional. You probably have no idea of all the circumstances that caused their reluctant cutting short of the York to Blackpools at Preston. Much of which was OUTSIDE Northern's control. I have no reason to believe that their promise to re-instate it, after the Manchester to Preston line goes live and a new timetable is introduced, will not be kept.
So what were the circumstances that caused their "reluctant" cutting short of the service at Leeds and their "reluctant" timing of it so it just misses the Northern service to York?
I suppose you're right. They've not kept a promise yet so they must be due to keep at least one.
We don't know if there is any penalty on TPE for not introducing the Mk3s.
I assumed that curtailing the service to run Leeds - Preston was a temporary arrangement as it was always busy with a lot of through Blackpool traffic. The local user group of which I'm a member has campaigned for this service to call at Sowerby Bridge and we were surprised to see that stops have been added at Mytholmroyd and Bramley. It makes sense to use an electric unit from Blackpool as there is a shortage of diesel stock. I thought I read that eventually the Leeds - York stopper would be a self-contained service and the Blackpool would run fast.
Very heartening indeed - almost as heartening as the fact that I ended up passing my final year, and am due to graduate in July with a 2:1 in Civil & Railway Engineering!
"Committed to Dec" but likelihood is of a service sooner (see my post #7487 above). Accepting track record not good to date. Lol. I also believe heads are already likely to have rolled hence the impetus and focus the remaining project delivery milestones are getting. Possibly good news on Yarrow viaduct earlier. That may well free things up for further acceleration to complete by early Aug. In effect; when the major civils are completed the stringing of the wires could be done in a mid-week possession between 00:00 and 04:30 as required.
Echoed! What LDEC wrote.
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I'll bet my combined volume that a lack of clearance for the ATF/25kV Feeder, added with poor ground conditions (hence no burial) is the reason why.Noticed today that the 25kV feeder is raised off the ground as it passes under Anderton Hall footbridge, but only on the northbound side. The other side remains at ground level. Any idea why?
