When it comes to Creative Partnership Working, MCRUA and the Community Rail Partnership appreciate it is a two way process especially when you can travel to an event in a rural village by train. And no, Mad Dog MCREA is not a spelling mistake by the MCRUA Vice Chairman! But this will certainly appeal to [...]
We are indebted to our member Mike Battman for providing the below images of Altrincham Railway Station taken earlier in March. It will be interesting to see how work progresses especially areas that will be substantially changed. We also welcome you news and views on this important Mid Cheshire Line Project. It is all change at [...]
Living on the Mid Cheshire Line is one of the Best Places to Live and that is official! The Sunday Times, today Sunday 17th March 2013, published its Best Places to Live in Britain and cited Chester, Northwich and Hale to be best places to live in Cheshire. Talking about the North West, it said [...]
Great news in this press release published today! …. **************************************************** 4 March 2013 Mid-Cheshire line study starts A study looking at a busy Cheshire commuter train line has started, leading to what could be improvements for passengers. The Mid-Cheshire line runs from Manchester to Stockport and Chester. En-route it serves many picturesque villages, the Delamere [...]
Finishing Chester Station does seem to be taking ages, though it should look very good once it’s done. The work on the footbridge is still “grinding on” despite the signs originally stating it would be completed before Christmas (2012). George Jones (of the Llangollen Railway and Shrewsbury-Chester Rail Users fame) has provided us with a [...]
Many of you know that with the support of Northern Rail we recommenced our passenger counts on the Mid Cheshire line in September 2012. We’re pleased to provide an interim report based on the counts taken in 2012, see below. With results as interesting and encouraging as these, we’ve decided to continue the counts into [...]
Sally, the Community Rail Officer and one of our MCRUA members attended 170 years celebrations at Stockport Station which originally opened on 15th Feb 1843 – shortly after the viaduct was finished. A member of the Virgin Trains Station Staff – Niki Abnett (in the photo below) – decided to research the history and put up [...]
Andrew Macfarlane writes: We had a presentation from TfGM at Monday night’s Friends of Altrincham Interchange meeting about the current state of play with the Interchange scheme. To summarise: All necessary approvals are now in place for the scheme to commence onsite including Planning Approval, Network Rail Form 1 to 4 Design Approvals, Landlord’s Consent [...]
Northern have just provided us with the Mid Cheshire line “official” passenger figures for 2012. These are: – Revenue Northern Area West overall +10.8% Mid Cheshire line +12% Journeys Northern Area West overall +1.3m, i.e. +3.8% Mid Cheshire line +98,000, i.e. +7.3% Scholar season tickets sold were 370 from 1 September – 31 December 2012 [...]
We had some great wins at the recent 2012 Cheshire Best Kept Stations Awards. Congratulations on our patch go to all involved with Chester, Delamere, Hartford, Northwich and Plumley, as well as to Sally our CRO wearing her other hat for Ellesmere Port and Little Sutton. Nearby Chelford got a special award, too. Here’s coverage on the Marketing [...]
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