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WMT to Manchester and Cross Country avoiding Birmingham

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A Wigan/Southport/Kirkby/Skelmersdale/Liverpool - Bury/Rochdale/Burnley/Blackburn/Bradford/Leeds/York flow does not need to travel through Manchester Victoria and neither does freight.
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Maybe not but most of the people on those trains want Manchester from either side so the trains are best going through Victoria - it is only for operational convenience that they run through rather than terminating from each side.
 
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