Merseyrail

[wirralbus]

RE: Merseyrail
Services on the Southport line subject to severe signalling difficulties between Formby and Southport .

Not something you want when people are trying to get home from work or away from the beaches of the Coast.

[wirralbus]

RE: Merseyrail
Services on the Southport line still suffering severe delays , some trains have started from Formby back to Liverpool , some trains have also started from Southport but running with considerable delay.

[wirralbus]

RE: Merseyrail
Southport services now running every 30 mins until fault is rectified with the signalling system

[WidnesRuncornBus]

RE: Merseyrail
Just caught word of a 507 broken down at Chester, exact number is not known. Luckily its not havig any effect on services (trains pulling in further up the platform).

[H101GEV (Administrator)]

RE: Merseyrail

(15/07/2013 05:28)wirralbus Wrote:  Winter daytime Southport service on a Sunday needs to be enhanced to 15 minutes but this could be maintained off season with three coach services , except on the run up to Christmas when demand would suffice to allow six coach services.

Entirely agree with this. It's about time the Sunday service was enhanced year-round as the 30 minute timetable hasn't been enough for several years. A potentially attractive alternative may be forming the winter services of 6 cars throughout if a 15 minute service is impractical.

[YN05 WKE]

RE: Merseyrail

(14/07/2013 00:27)SNL 824 Wrote:  

(13/07/2013 21:08)snowey Wrote:  

(13/07/2013 20:24)E208 WBG Wrote:  intresting working on Ormskirk Line today... seen one 6 car and rest was all 3 cars was thinking I wounder why there was 1 six car as no real need for it

This will prove my point to SNL 824 -

Liverpool were away to Preston in a friendly today so with the 9 day block on the WCML a lot of fans will be travelling to Preston on the Ormskirk line. Merseyrail put a 6 car on the diagram that does the 18.20 x Ormskirk as this was connecting out of the 17.39 from Preston which was seen as the train a lot of Liverpool fans would be returning home on.

Hope this explains everything.

Well that's a great start, but what will really prove the point is 6 car sets to meet the soccerbuses at sahdhills

Cheers for explaining this the same happened last saturday as well

[YN05 WKE]

RE: Merseyrail
Hi All how many trains are in advert liveries atm im sure 507111 & 508011 both have Beatles Wrap but not sure on any of the others any help will be great

[CX06 EBK (Administrator)]

RE: Merseyrail
508111 is in Beatles Story wrap and 507002 is in Liverpool Hope Uni wrap. There are no others.

[snowey]

RE: Merseyrail

(15/07/2013 21:29)CX06 EBK Wrote:  There are no others.

Yet :

[wirralbus]

RE: Merseyrail

(15/07/2013 20:15)507009 Wrote:  

(15/07/2013 05:28)wirralbus Wrote:  Winter daytime Southport service on a Sunday needs to be enhanced to 15 minutes but this could be maintained off season with three coach services , except on the run up to Christmas when demand would suffice to allow six coach services.

Entirely agree with this. It's about time the Sunday service was enhanced year-round as the 30 minute timetable hasn't been enough for several years. A potentially attractive alternative may be forming the winter services of 6 cars throughout if a 15 minute service is impractical.

To be honest cant see a problem with the 15 minute service applying to Winter Sunday services , there is more than enough sets available , it just utilises sets that would otherwise be spare on a sunday .