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 thanks to Northern [...]
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 delighted and [...]
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 [...]
For years people have been complaining that railway timetables are difficult to understand. But the industry doesn’t seem to do anything about it. Notable exceptions are GMPTE with their clear station posters and also Merseyrail, though they confuse by using the 12 hour clock that the rest of the UK travel industry gave [...]
According to Crain’s Manchester Business, Manchester’s first cycle centre is to be set up at Piccadilly station.
It will offer secure parking for bikes and may also have facilities such as an information point, cycle hire and bike maintenance.
Manchester City Council and Salford City Council have commissioned a report which identified a number of potential locations, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?
Did you know that Delamere Forest is Cheshire’s largest area of woodland? We even have our very own Mid-Cheshire Line railway station right in its heart.
From the station it’s a short 10-minute stroll to the Information Centre (where you can buy a map of all the trails), Tracs cycle hire and Go Ape. [...]
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