Delamere Concert trains carry 1,000 ….
Last Friday’s and Saturday’s concerts in Delamere Forest proved very popular. Both were sold out with Simply Red on the Friday and James Morrison on the Saturday. The Sunday concert with The View was cancelled due to “extended recording commitments”.
The Forestry Commission advertised the train service and Northern strengthened our trains and provided extra staff. In both directions around 250 left on the last trains, the last one to Manchester being retimed to run 10 minutes later at 2315 to fit in better with the end of the concert.
A number of travellers for the Chester-bound trains were asking when the last connections were for Liverpool and Warrington. Whoops – they’d missed them. They should have been on the 2226, not the 2326. Some happy cabbies in Chester that evening, we suspect!
Congratulations to the Forestry Commission for publicising the option of using the train on their publicity and to Northern for strengthening the services, retiming the last Manchester-bound train and coping well with the passenger numbers.
1,000 passengers, i.e. 2,000 journeys. There won’t be many request stops with these sorts of passenger numbers!
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July 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
And I thought when I saw a wedding party of around 30 boarding a train at Ashley one Saturday afternoon, that 30 was a high number for a request stop.
(I still think 30 remains very high for Ashley though).