TransPennine Express

[childwallblues]

RE: First Transpennine Express
Services are turning a full circle.
Services from Liverpool were traditionally to Newcastle and Hull until the 1980s when Scarborough replaced Hull. The Scarborough service was diverted for a time to Llandudno but had reverted to Liverpool by the early nineties. Before all Liverpool services went to Scarborough there was a through service from Blackpool North.
Anyway no town/city has a god given right to have a service to x or y. Just think of the destinations lost to Liverpool over the last thirty years - Hull, Newcastle (except for an early morning train), Sunderland, Penzance, Plymouth, Portsmouth. Dover, Reading, Glasgow, Edinburgh, York via Halifax, Wakefield via Huddersfield, Morecambe, Heysham Harbour, South Wales to name but some.