Our Community Rail Officer, Sally Buttifant, has 2000 geraniums coming this week – 500 for Northwich, 500 for Greenbank, 500 for Delamere & 500 for Mouldsworth. We need to provide her with help to plant them – particularly at Greenbank, Delamere and Mouldsworth where the ground needs digging over first, then the plants planting. Could [...]
The Railway Touring Company is running a steam special from Cleethorpes to Chester and back via Stockport-Altrincham-Northwich on Saturday 12th June hauled by LMS Black 5 4-6-0 44871. More details are on their website. If you’re out and about on our line and get some good pictures, why not send them to the North Wales [...]
Northern are trialling a revision to the ticket office opening hours at Northwich for a 4 week period. The trial sees the ticket office open an hour earlier at 0615. This means it will now also be open for the first 3 services, the 0625 to Manchester, the 0705 to Stockport as well as the [...]
Greenbank and Hartford stations have an improved bus service from 1 June. The route 82, which runs between Northwich and Chester, will become half-hourly during the middle of the day, Mondays to Fridays. The extra buses start at 0910 from Chester and finish with the 1710 from Northwich and two afternoon services run on school [...]
We’ve had an aspiration for years for the shelter on the Manchester-bound platform to have the nasty dark green-painted fibreboard removed from the windows and the windows reinstated. Yesterday the work started (pictures taken from a Chester-bound train) …. Please let us know if you know how many years ago they were boarded over. Many [...]
Sale Beer Festival is open tomorrow and Saturday and only a few minutes walk from Sale Metrolink station. Opening Times : Fri 17:00 – 23:00, Sat 12:00-23:00. There are 30 Real Ales from around the North-West on tap. Entrance is £5 on the door. Remember from our line to ask for a through ticket to [...]
After many years with nowhere to sit down on the Chester-bound platform, we have a “new” bench installed. The foot is there for perspective! As you can see it’s an original railway bench, now returned to the railway. Very fitting for Plumley with its rather special station. Plumley with Toft and Bexton Parish Council are [...]
Stockport’s annual arts festival, Culturefeast, is set to be the biggest, best and most creative yet. The festival, which runs from 13–31 May features a wide range of free fun activities and events. Carol Morrison, Service Director for Communities at Stockport Council, said: “Last year’s Culturefeast festival attracted over 200,000 visitors a week to the [...]
Friends of Northwich Station met together on Thursday 29 April and are meeting again for a clean up morning on Saturday 22 May between 10am & 1pm at the station. Those involved will be helping with litter picking, cleaning, tidying and gardening. Everyone is welcome – please turn up in old clothes with gloves if [...]
Northern Rail has secured a two year extension to its train operating franchise on the same terms as its existing contract. The Department for Transport has confirmed that the franchise will now run until September 2013. The two year extension follows the significant performance improvements that Northern has achieved since the franchise began in December [...]
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