Northern Rail

[wirralbus]

RE: Northern Rail
I remember one time when the unit was piggybacked on the Manchester Picc - Chester via Northwich service , so there is plenty of combinations of ways for the unit to arrive at chester.

[childwallblues]

RE: Northern Rail
150228 complete with Yorkshire Forward decals was on todays 0753 Chester to Liverpool South Parkway. 95 passengers boarded at Chester, Helsby and Frodsham.

[N271CKB]

RE: Northern Rail
Currently no service between Oxford Rd and Warrington Cen due to person being hit by a train at Humphrey Park

[wirralbus]

RE: Northern Rail

(31/07/2012 12:07)N271CKB Wrote:  Currently no service between Oxford Rd and Warrington Cen due to person being hit by a train at Humphrey Park

Service restored at 1409 , train involved in incident was 1055 Liverpool Lime st - Manchester Oxford Road.

[wirralbus]

RE: Northern Rail
Oh what a summer we are having .

Once again there is disruption in the Todmorden area due to flooding.

[wirralbus]

RE: Northern Rail
Services between Liverpool Lime Street and Wigan North Western have this morning been subject to disruption caused by Vandalism in the St Helens area.

[R311 WVR]

RE: Northern Rail
Due to a fault on-board, The 14.57 Northern service to Blackpool North from Lime St was cancelled. What I don't understand is Ever Half hour you get a Service to Wigan, But the Every Hour? Blackpool Service, Which runs VIA Wigan, Is let to suffor. The train was a 150/1, And went on the 1657 to Blackpool North.

[CX54 DKD (Moderator)]

RE: Northern Rail
Simple, the normal Wigan service picks up a LOT more passengers (and I can tell you this as a regular user of the line) as it stops at every station. The Blackpool North only stops at Huyton before St Helens so, if that service is sacrificed, it leaves a lot less unhappy passengers!

[wirralbus]

RE: Northern Rail
Sometimes a Wigan stopper will get cancelled and replaced by a Blackpool North service stopping at all the stations that the Wigan service would stop at but and here is the caveat Network rail then have to be able to path the service between Wigan North Western and Euxton Junction on the double track section of line , this isnt always possible due to freight whose paths they aint going to disrupt because Network rail would have to pay out to them as well , its not as simple as it looks in Network rail control.

[wirralbus]

RE: Northern Rail
A landslip is causing disruption in the Garswood area.

Because of this, buses are replacing trains between Wigan North Western and St Helens Central, with journey times extended by up to 30 minutes.