Northern (Arriva Rail North)

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RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)

(08/03/2019 08:03)mikestone Wrote:  No, for the simple reason the timetables promised in the re-franchising are unworkable without additional infrastructure at Piccadilly.

One of the biggest issues is the North TPE changes have been done, which obviously means it's harder to path Northern services through Deansgate, Piccadilly 13/14 and Victoria, as well as replacing the all-stops Airport shuttle with extra calls on other services going to the Airport. Those changes combined were supposed to free up paths for additional services to Greenbank, New Mills Newton and Macclesfield, as well as creating a path for an additional Airport service. The latter requires an additional service to go through Deansgate & Piccadilly 13/14 (from Bradford) so is a bit of an issue. However, only one of the other 3 have been achieved (New Mills Newton which Northern are running as a second Buxton service) so at the moment there's a mess one side of Manchester and a lack of the promised additional services the other side so it's the worst of both worlds.