I meant after the December changes.It's not even true:
Realtime Trains | 1F10 0527 London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street | 20/09/2022
Real-time train running information for 1F10 0527 departure from London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street on 20/09/2022. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.www.realtimetrains.co.uk
(shows a service from Euston to Liverpool via the Trent Valley arriving 0804 and calling at Watford and Nuneaton on 20/9/22)
Southport might be a good fit for Calder. Both diesel, northern pair/through Victoria running - 4 cars or so. Some onward journey potential (Southport/Wigan/Bolton to Bradford/Leeds)
IIRC, in the infamous May 2018 timetable most of the Leeds-Manchester via Dewsbury services ran through to/from Southport....but they were cut back to Wigan a year later.
At least it will still be possible to get to Liverpool for 08:17 with a ten-minute change from the first Glasgow train to an ex-Birmingham one at Crewe.
It’s only ever been intended to be 2 hourly, that’s going back to the 2016 access consultation. I think in the last consultation for the expected May 2022 timetable, (that was deferred) the actual Middlesborough service was still once each day each way, it was already showing as deferred until mid 2020s.
The units that operate both services finish their diagram at Ardwick TMD, a move that’s necessary to balance units out, meaning that there are enough units to start their diagram at Ardwick, with their first passenger working being from Manchester Airport, Piccadilly or Liverpool Lime Street.
No it’s only half that. September MR magazine implies any deferred changes to 2023 may not happen then now either even though LNER has been one of the fastest to return passenger numbers. Shame but that’s the trouble when the DfT have too much influence.
I have always questioned why it wasn’t possible to get a 20:30 to Scotland, even if it was a ‘Stopper’ to Preston and then even non-stop to Scotland.
What was the point of spending £1.2B on upgrades to facilitate an improved service that the DfT like to brag about.
IMHO, Alan Williams' column about the DfT in this month's 'Modern Railways' is essential reading for anyone with an interest in these matters.
I’ve not got to the back pages yet. I bet there’s a moan about TPE or the lack of Whitby services in there somewhere lol.
Exactly.
It is an excellent article. Top writing.
No....there are nearly three pages all about the shortcomings of the DfT - going back quite a few years!
The answer is they’re thinking far too much about savings on the rawest of costs (e.g. diesel and then any overtime needed) and therefore going “Well enjoy that” to the people who have to use the service.A quick glance shows that, despite weekly complaints of dangerous overcrowding and people fainting, Chiltern are still only running one train per hour between London and Birmingham for most of the day at weekends.
What on Earth are they/the DfT/the Treasury thinking?!?!?
A quick glance shows that, despite weekly complaints of dangerous overcrowding and people fainting, Chiltern are still only running one train per hour between London and Birmingham for most of the day at weekends.
What on Earth are they/the DfT/the Treasury thinking?!?!?