Hazel Grove to Clitheroe on 01/01/14

[northernrailer]

On New Years day it appears that Northern's Hazel Grove to Preston services, are actually running Hazel Grove to Clitheroe. The returning service from Clitheroe to Hazel Grove is somewhat weird:

Clitheroe xx40 dep
Bolton xx32 arrives platform 1

shunts to platform 3

Bolton xx50 dep
Man Picc xx18 arr
xx21 dep
Haezel Gr xx43 arr


The 0933 Hazel Grove to Preston is usually booked 4 car, which then forms the 1423 Preston to Hazel Grove, but if the 0954 service is a double unit it will be the 1250 departure from Bolton back to Hazel Grove which is normally a 2 car set, or will 2 carriages be detached on arrival at Bolton in the morning and reattached to the 1450 service?

Im not sure how Northern will be diagramming the Hazel Grove to Clitheroe on NYD, whether all Hazel Grove to Clitheroe services will be 4 car, seen as though some Manv Vic to Kirkby services are only a hourly Wigan to Kirkby so there will be some spare units.

There are some Hazel Groves / Buxtons in the peak from Bolton that are 4 cars normally.

 

[Darren R]

I noticed the strange pattern of services on the Clitheroe line on New Year's Day and wondered why. During the Victoria bloackade there has been a basic hourly service to either Salford Central or Oxford Road; Salford Central is closed on New Year's Day though. Even so, it does seem a strange and unnecessarily complicated way of doing things, although I'm assuming it's for a good reason!

There is no 0933 Hazel grove to Preston on New Year's Day though: it's the 0933 Hazel Grove to Clitheroe. It arrives at Hazel Grove in the shape of the 0750 Bolton to Hazel Grove (arr 0845), which in turn is formed from the 0640 from Clitheroe to Bolton (arr 0732.) That's pretty much the pattern all day, and I can't see them being double-units; they've only been running on Saturdays. (And I can't see them being shunted from platform one to three at Bolton either - it's an unnecessary and complex movement. It's more likely to be a typo of some sort and they'll depart from platform one.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Perhaps a cunning LCC marketing plan to introduce the good people of Hazel Grove to the undoubted delights that are to be found in Clitheroe, such as Dawson's department store, Cowman's famous sausage shop and the Apricot Meringue cafe..

 

[johnnychips]

Perhaps a cunning LCC marketing plan to introduce the good people of Hazel Grove to the undoubted delights that are to be found in Clitheroe, such as Dawson's department store, Cowman's famous sausage shop and the Apricot Meringue cafe..

Will they be open though, Paul?