Our AGM is next Thursday in the conservatory at The Golden Pheasant pub in Plumley, just a couple of minutes walk from Plumley station. Convenient trains are the 1807 from Chester and the 1817 from Piccadilly. This is the same pub we use for our very successful music trains from Chester; they look [...]
Here’s one not to be missed!
The Summer Saturday’s only “parliamentary train” from Chester to Runcorn is being extended for one day only on 26 June to Liverpool South Parkway (LSP) as part of the 20th Anniversary Celebrations of our friends in NCRUG (North Cheshire Rail Users Group).
Travel back from LSP for those not wishing to [...]
Great News!
We hear the health difficulties that John Kitchen, our first Community Rail Officer, has been having were last week correctly diagnosed as something rather rare.
More importantly, he tells us that the new medication he has been given is already having an excellent effect.
We hear he’s very much on the mend and expects to resume [...]
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 [...]
Last November, following a dinner I was invited to at which Lord Adonis was the speaker, I put together a post speculating on when we were likely to get some more and newer trains.
I was invited to attend Northern’s meeting for Stakeholders last Tuesday. They were able to give us an update on how [...]
After a post about Liverpool Airport. OK! Fair cop! And no, I wasn’t prompted.
Yes, Manchester Airport is also pretty easy to get to/from using our line, so long as you’re not out on an early morning flight, or back on one arriving very late.
Car parking for a week pre-booked comes out at [...]
Liverpool John Lennon Airport (JLA) has developed astonishingly fast in the last few years with budget flights to many parts. It’s well known that the airlines pay low landing fees to use it, the Airport making its money in other ways.
A week’s parking in the new multi-storey opposite the airport building costs around £85, [...]
We’re delighted that thanks to you the Blog keeps going from strength to strength.
Thanks for the suggestions we’ve had for improvements. One of these was asking us to make it easy for bloggers to see when new comments come in.
We’ve made this change in the last couple of days – see the right-hand side [...]
The 4-wheel bumpy, cold, wet, draughty class 142 Pacers have served us “well” for many years.
But would we be sorry to see them go? NO!! We’d like class 156 Super Sprinters to be the normal trains for our services.
It seems some people would miss them.
If you’d [...]
Slowly Britain’s Railways are crawling into the electronic age.
First we had Wrexham & Shropshire with their tickets by text message, then Virgin had a trial of e-tickets from Manchester to London only, subsequently, I think, discontinued.
Now TransPennine Express (TPE) have started with print your own tickets.
Here’s an example from a few days ago.
It looks as [...]
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