Our Online Booking Office is open for the Great Western Express Railtour.
The Railtour runs on Saturday 8 May 2010 going to Oxford, Bath and Bristol.
Now here’s a good idea ……
Why not consider buying a pair of tickets as a SURPRISE GIFT for the one you love, family or friend?
Click here for further details of the Great [...]
Happily at present we only see rail replacement buses planned for late evenings every 6th week. Not at all would be even better, but it appears Network Rail have a contractual right to demand these.
Less often, we have unplanned (emergency) services when things go wrong. The most recent occurrence was on 17 February [...]
The Government has just approved £121m for two more Metrolink extensions.
The proposed 4.5km Chorlton to East Didsbury extension, on a former railway line, will include five new stops connecting Chorlton with Withington, West Didsbury, Burton Road Didsbury Village and East Didsbury.
The Ashton extension will see 3.9 km of new track laid and four new [...]
Arthur Sancto 1944 – 2009
Arthur, our MCRUA Secretary, was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, where his father worked as an armature winder for the Great Western Railway. He developed an early interest in the railways and was a keen train-spotter.
On leaving school, aged 16, he took up an engineering apprenticeship with the Western Region Workshops [...]
TPE have reintroduced their Club 55 offer for the period 1st March to 30th April: see here.
There’s some great value tickets based on zones from as little as £5 return (£4 with a railcard) Manchester to Liverpool, to £20 return Manchester to Glasgow or Edinburgh (Railcard – £16) or £30 First Class (Railcard – £24).
Also, [...]
Sally Buttifant, our Community Rail Officer, asks -
“Are you interested in the Northwich Station?
“Have you got some time to spare?
“Would you like to make a difference in your community?
“Then why not become a Friend of Northwich Station?”
You can volunteer for as much or as little time as you can and make new friends.
Northwich Station is [...]
Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) in Oxford?
Spotted last Saturday in Cowley Road.
Sorry, couldn’t resist it!
We’re pleased to announce the dates for our 2010 series of Music Trains: -
21 April – Chester Folk Festival
19 May – Nelson Peach
16 June – The Weavils
21 July – Halfe Pannikin
25 August – Acoustak
22 September – Root Chords
All on Wednesdays on the 1907 from Chester to the Golden Pheasant at Plumley, returning on the 2203 [...]
Chester has its (scruffy) gates. No-one has yet been able been able to tell us what they’re there for.
Now Stockport has its fences. These are at the Manchester-end of the main platforms (1&2 and 3&4).
It seems that a number of people over the years have taken a fancy (for whatever reason) to a [...]
Network Rail today announced their proposals following the completion of “The Manchester Hub” study into providing faster, more frequent and more reliable journeys right the way across northern England.
The study was established at the request of the then minister, following detailed work carried out by The Northern Way, the association of Regional Development Agencies in [...]
End of the line for station canopies?
That’s the headline in the Altrincham Messenger about the redevelopment plans for Altrincham Interchange.
To read the article complete with a picture of our very own Andrew Macfarlane, click here.
What do you think?
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