Northern Rail

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RE: Northern Rail

(10/06/2015 22:11)wirralbus Wrote:  The problem being is that it can not generate any more passengers because the service is little use to anybody two services before 07.10 and the others in early afternoon , what are these services meant to catch in the way of passengers .

This is little more than a service to keep the stations on the line from statutory closure procedures , the death knell was when the line from Hooton to Ellesmere port section was electrified .

But like you have said even those two services have low passenger numbers anyway - so who's to say that any other potential services in the future would carry more passengers than the the two return journeys carry at the moment? I personally would like to see the route to Helsby electrified by third rail and transferred to Merseyrail with alternating services terminating at Ellesmere Port and the remainder terminating at Helsby. I think that would be the only possible way services on the Ellesmere Port-Helsby section of the line could realistically be increased - but even then would the low passenger numbers actually justify the cost of electrifying the remaining part of the line and Merseyrail possibly needing to find an extra unit or two to allow for longer services to Helsby? I'm not convinced it would

Basically there you have stated why it is a low frequency route and why it isn't likely to be increased any time soon