For 30 stations, it is likely that some lines would be re-opened:
Bootle Branch/Canada Dock Line:
Liverpool, Edge Hiill, Edge Lane, Stanley, Tuebrook, Breck Road, Walton & Anfield, Spellow, Bootle Oriel Rd and on to wherever...
North Mersey Branch:
Bootle-Aintree
WK evening 6 car set was cancelled at Bhead North due to door problems (according to Realtimetrains website) the following service ran by 508125 took the full load of the 6 car and the normally busy service that follows the 6
(26/06/2014 15:38)First Class Wrote: [ -> ]For 30 stations, it is likely that some lines would be re-opened:
Bootle Branch/Canada Dock Line:
Liverpool, Edge Hiill, Edge Lane, Stanley, Tuebrook, Breck Road, Walton & Anfield, Spellow, Bootle Oriel Rd and on to wherever...
North Mersey Branch:
Bootle-Aintree
To be honest I can not see either line opening to passenger in the near future , somebody would have to have a deep pocket to open them lines , the chances are that if they did the Bootle Branch / Canada Dock line would be operated by whatever replaced Northern Rail.
North Mersey would have to be added to the Northern Line of Merseyrail as that would be feasible , im sure.
There was an unconfirmed report of disruption on the Ormskirk line on saturday due to an incident at Sandhills anyone know anymore on this? Thanks.
(30/06/2014 11:05)MX12CFE Wrote: [ -> ]There was an unconfirmed report of disruption on the Ormskirk line on saturday due to an incident at Sandhills anyone know anymore on this? Thanks.
Bridge bash betwwen Sandhills and Leeds Street.
Services where off earlier due to a points failure at Birkenhead Central , Arriva provided a rail replacement bus service .
The Wirral lines certainly seem to have had a run of awkward disruptions recently - points failures, line side equipment failures, train failures closing lines for hours at a time every few days. Even the passengers are talking about it on forums like Wirral Newsbeat which report them as they happen. It must be pulling the reliability stats right down.
More problems today with 508114 a complete cripple at Ellesmere Port this late afternoon. It had to be hauled back to Rock Ferry by 507020.
(01/07/2014 20:43)507009 Wrote: [ -> ]More problems today with 508114 a complete cripple at Ellesmere Port this late afternoon. It had to be hauled back to Rock Ferry by 507020.
That failed completely across the pointwork at Ellesmere Port on an ECS working.
It is beyond poor quite frankly that they continue to use 3 cars on the Southport line on weekends now we're into July. The provision of weekend pairs on this line should be year-round as the loadings easily justify it, or at the very least a lot more than just the summer holiday weekends in July, August and September. The forecast might not be outstanding for today, but it will be sunny and that in itself will see high loadings. They've had years to sort this out but never do, it's simply a disgrace.