1316 Liverpool Lime st-Manchester Airport was cancelled due to a problem at the depot. 1740 Manchester Airport-Liverpool Lime st was due to operate but didn't because the replacement was slower than the normal allocation of a 319.
A slower diesel really wouldn't lose too much time over a electric , if that was the excuse then that is a feeble excuse for a cancellation , at best skipping some stops would have sorted that out .
From TfGM:
19:00 Manchester Airport-Barrow in Furness changes from a 3 car Class
185 to a 3 car Northern unit with a resulting increase in available capacity
The following services will remain as 4 carriage workings but see a slight
decrease in available capacity due to the formation of train units used:
07:57 Wigan NW – Victoria
08:21 Blackpool North – Huddersfield
08:44 Victoria – Southport
10:23 Southport – Manchester Airport
11:15 Huddersfield – Wigan Wallgate
12:03 Manchester Airport – Southport
13:45 Wigan Wallgate – Stalybridge
14:23 Southport – Manchester Airport
15:08 Stalybridge – Victoria
16:03 Manchester Airport – Southport
16:11 Victoria – Stalybridge
16:30 Stalybridge – Wigan Wallgate
18:15 Southport – Manchester Airport
18:24 Wigan Wallgate – Victoria
19:35 Victoria – Wigan Wallgate
20:03 Manchester Airport – Southport
22:18 Southport – Manchester Piccadilly
The following train services which previously ran as 4 car units will now run
as 2 carriage:
03:38 Lime Street – Manchester Airport
04:34 Manchester Airport – Lime Street
06:36 Victoria-Leeds
18:14 Victoria – Wigan NW
19:03 Wigan NW – Lime Street
The above are a direct result of the TPE 170s leaving and going to Chiltern with Northern needing to find replacements for the 185s used on North West routes.
Does northern at this present have a three car units at its disposal , other than attaching a 153 to something ?
(17/06/2016 11:16)wirralbus Wrote: [ -> ]Does northern at this present have a three car units at its disposal , other than attaching a 153 to something ?
They have the 8 x 3 car 158s mainly used on Calder Valley services but it's understood the Barrow working will be either a 150+153 or a 156+153.
(17/06/2016 09:17)wirralbus Wrote: [ -> ]A slower diesel really wouldn't lose too much time over a electric , if that was the excuse then that is a feeble excuse for a cancellation , at best skipping some stops would have sorted that out .
Have to say that it's poor cancelling so many services along that line. An operator might find it cheaper if they don't run a service over not stopping at some stations.
I think a cancelled service will incur bigger charges than a service which skips stops out to make time up.
In the old days it used to be a part cancellation would equal a quarter of a cancellation , don't know if this still applies .
Network rail now say it will be the 24th June before services can resume between Buxton and Stockport , this is now becoming a serious washout
(17/06/2016 15:13)wirralbus Wrote: [ -> ]Network rail now say it will be the 24th June before services can resume between Buxton and Stockport , this is now becoming a serious washout
Start of service on the 25th June is now the latest for the line to reopen
Overhead Wires around St Helens are playing up meaning some Trains are cancelled and others are delayed