There's no car park to speak of...
Doesn't stop the trains calling though. I know that not having a sufficient car park goes against the idea of a parkway station, but travel by car isn't the only way to get to Newton-le-Willows to connect with a long distance train service.
....To say nothing of the trains crossing the WCML and L&M twice to reach it....
And what would they get in the way of? The twice hourly London/Birmingham-Scotland services? The Chat Moss route has gaps in service each way, so it's really a case of sufficient gaps on the Chat Moss and WCML lining up atm. Of course that may be more tricky in future years if more trains use the Chat Moss, then again, it'll only be on that line for three or four minutes.
....The Alliance proposals are complete nonsense until they have trains.
The trains are nonsensical without a route to run them on. Which do you propose should come first? Getting fast trains for December could be quite hard, though I imagine not impossible (unless you only count new trains).
Alliance proposed Newton-le-Willows and Winsford would have new large car parks built and be renamed as 'Parkway' stations. Newton-le-Willows currently has 15 parking spaces and it looks like any new parking spaces would be the other side of the track to the current parking area so might need a new access road, new footbridges, new lifts etc....
I was aware of their plans for a parkway, that wasn't quite what I meant, however, it wouldn't be a bad thing for Newton if they got that in the long run, Alliance did want the same for Eccles on their other long distance plans, though Eccles has no room for a new car park and no simple access even if it did.
