Northern Trains Ltd

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RE: Northern Trains Ltd

(01/12/2020 23:08)mikestone Wrote:  Don't seem to be able to find a Crewe line pdf - I thought it disappeared into the Chat Moss or Wigan tables, but it doesn't seem to be there now?
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Hadfield, Chester and Sheffield appear to be the lines affected - it does seem odd that anyone can suddenly say Chester and Manchester are each going to be unable to cover one or one and a half turns.

Crewe and airport services are now all in the same timetable booklet.

In terms of trains it looks like the trains off the both the 11:41 & 12:41 Piccadilly to Chester services will then join up and run the 15:02 Chester to Piccadilly and 16:40 Piccadilly to Chester and then split up again so that one train runs the 21:02 Chester to Piccadilly and the other runs the 22:00 Chester to Piccadilly. However, what the drivers and guards will do is a separate question and less obvious. It could be the doubled up services get 2 x guards and 1 x driver.

To complicate matters the train off the 16:41 Piccadilly to Chester goes on to a Helsby to Ellesmere Port service and then a Ellesmere Port to Lime Street service, meaning the train off the one surviving peak time extra (17:19 Stockport to Chester) works the 19:00 Chester to Piccadily.

I can't, however, see any inconsistencies in the Chester to Victoria/Leeds services, so it doesn't look like any drivers switch from one line to another unless a driver does work a Mid-Cheshire service and goes on a Chester-Victoria service with another driver for route learning purposes.