The Newsletter of the Mid-Cheshire Rail Users Association, the Voice for Users of the Manchester-Stockport-Altrincham-Knutsford-Northwich-Chester and Crewe-Hartford-Liverpool Lines.
See our website, which is again available at www.mcrua.org.uk.
We are pleased to inform members that John Mooney, the recently-appointed Passenger Link Director for the Rail Passengers’ Council (RPC) based in Manchester, is to speak at a MCRUA public meeting on Thursday 20th October, starting at 7.30pm. Members will be able to hear about the new structure of the RPC and how the RPC and rail user groups will be able to work together for the benefit of passengers. Our own John Kitchen, the Community Rail Partnership Officer for the mid-Cheshire line, will also be telling us about a recent study visit, which he made to the Netherlands. The venue for the meeting will be the newly-refurbished station building at Northwich station and the meeting will also provide an opportunity for members to inspect the new facilities inside the building. In fact our meeting is scheduled to be the first event to be held in the building. Suitable trains are the 18.24 from Manchester Piccadilly, due into Northwich at 19.17 and the 18.57 from Chester, due into Northwich at 19.26. Suitable return trains are the 21.26 to Manchester Piccadilly and the 21.17 and 22.17 to Chester. Parking is free in Northwich station car park. We hope for a good turnout of members for this meeting.
A number of sets of crossover points have been reinstated in the Stockport area during the weekend engineering blockades over the summer. Track has also been laid in the new platform 0 (zero) on the east side of the station and the overhead line in this platform was live as from Saturday 3rd September. Stockport station is to reopen on Saturdays as from 24th September and National Rail and GMPTE tickets will no longer be valid on the Metrolink Altrincham line on Saturdays from that date (unless they specify “route Metrolink”). Manchester Piccadilly will be closed for further engineering work in connection with the new depot for Trans-Pennine Express at Ardwick on Saturday 15th October. Mid Cheshire line services will only operate between Chester and Stockport on this date and MCRUA hopes that National Rail and GMPTE tickets will again be valid on the Metrolink Altrincham line on that date. There is to be a three-month blockade of the Cheadle Hulme to Crewe line, starting on 11th December. There will be a limited service between Manchester and Wilmslow via the Styal line during the blockade. The existing signal boxes at Wilmslow and Sandbach are to be abolished (and demolished) and control of the Cheadle Hulme to Crewe line will pass to the new Manchester South signalling centre at Edgeley, Stockport. Despite previous information to the contrary, Sydney Bridge Junction north of Crewe is apparently to be removed as part of the scheme and the track layout at Sandbach is to be simplified.
The new pocket timetable for the mid-Cheshire line is enclosed with this newsletter. The only significant change is that Manchester-bound trains are retimed to run earlier (in most cases by 4 minutes). The present 07.31 Chester to Piccadilly runs 8 minutes earlier and the present 09.31 Northwich to Blackpool North runs 5 minutes earlier. In practice trains are simply being given additional running time between Chester and Stockport to cater for the effects of leaf fall on train running times and the arrival times into Stockport and Manchester are unchanged. There is some retiming of Sunday services.
MCRUA’s Webmaster Robin Polack very sadly died at the early age of 48 on 10th August. Andrew Macfarlane represented the association at his funeral on 19th August. Arthur Sancto has taken over as our new Webmaster and the MCRUA website is now back on the Internet after a brief interlude. Please bear with us as we transfer control and it will be some time before any new information appears on the website. Nora Gleave and David Miller have both resigned from the committee and we thank them for their contribution. Mike Honeyman is now the Secretary of the association.
At the time of writing around 50 seats remained unsold on the special train to York, Malton (for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway) and Scarborough on Saturday 8th October. Please contact Laurence Wheeler (01244-678070 or laurence.wheeler@tesco.net) with any late bookings. Booking forms are available from andrew@mcrua.fsnet.co.uk. We have not yet decided whether we are running a special train in May 2006 and, if so, where the destination will be. The first choice date is Saturday 13th May with Saturday 20th May as the fallback date. Sunday 30th April is the provisional date for the 2006 Mid Cheshire Rail Day and it is again proposed to run a steam train between Altrincham and Chester on that date.
The Friends have had something of a victory on the issue of the canopy over platform 1 (the main Metrolink platform) at Altrincham station. GMPTA has approved a £150,000 scheme to reinstate a cover for the length of a double tram (two vehicles coupled together). The decision on which type of roof covering to be installed was to be made at the September meeting of the GMPTA Policy Committee. The choice was between polycarbonate, timber & felt and galvanised steel (i.e. not glass). The Friends have done some good work over the summer in clearing areas around Altrincham station of litter. They did a particularly good job with the area between platform 1 and the footpath leading to Moss Lane at the south end of the station. Sadly litter is again accumulating in this area. New, bigger litter bins have been installed on platform 1 at Altrincham (which has improved the litter situation) but Serco Metrolink’s policy of only using a travelling cleaner to clear litter from platform 1 is still clearly totally inadequate. The travelling cleaner does not usually appear until mid-morning, which means that platform 1 is often strewn with litter from the previous night for the whole of the morning peak period. The Friends now have a noticeboard in the bus station on the outside wall of the main station building near the station booking office. The next meeting of the Friends is on Monday 17th October at the Altrincham Baptist Church, Hale Road (opposite its junction with Oxford Road), starting at 7.30pm. MCRUA members are welcome to attend.
The MCRUA Hartford and Winsford Sub-Committee has taken up a number of issues arising out of the June 2005 timetable with Virgin Trains. These included overcrowding on the 07.43 and 09.34 Crewe to Euston services and the tight connection (5 minutes) for Euston at Stafford out of the 07.07 Central Trains service from Hartford, which often runs late. The new class 350 Desiro electric trains were due to start working Birmingham-Hartford-Liverpool services as from 12th September. We have received confirmation that the promised Birmingham-Hartford-Preston service will not now be provided due to pathing difficulties in the Birmingham area but there will be a 10.45 Hartford-London Euston service from the start of the December timetable (the first Monday will be the 12th December). The next meeting of MCRUA’s Hartford and Winsford Sub-Committee is at the Red Lion, 277 Chester Road, Hartford, on Wednesday 21st September, starting at 7.45pm. All MCRUA members are welcome to attend.
I am writing this on 30th August. I am pleased to state the service continues to run well, though we did have a bad patch for 3-4 weeks from the middle of June. This was for a variety of reasons, all of which have been addressed either by Northern Rail or Network Rail. There was subsequently a short period of late running around the period of the test match when our trains got swamped, with occasions of passengers being left behind, as well as trains running more slowly due to the weight of the passengers on the train springs. There is probably very little Northern Rail can do about this, since they were having similar problems on other lines at the same time and there were no spare trains within the franchise available to draft in [some train operators hire in additional locomotive-hauled rolling stock on such occasions – Ed]. What we are doing however, is assisting Northern Rail to make sure their special events list for our line is up to date, so that extra resources can be drafted in where they are available. This covers events like Chester Races, concerts in Delamere Forest, the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park and Knutsford May Day, as well as the cricket and MUFC home games.
The QIT last met on 18 July, spending some time analysing the difficulties that had arisen since mid-June. Since the meeting, things have improved markedly back to their previously good position, apart from the period of the Test Match as noted above. The proposed timetable from mid-December 2005 was subsequently reviewed, this being little changed from the present. A variety of suggestions for improvements were made, most of which Northern have been able to adopt. Those that have not been are being carried forward with a view to being fixed from summer 2006. Meanwhile, a further minor improvement funded jointly by Network Rail and Northern Rail has been the installation of manual train reporting into TRUST from Mobberley signal box. This plugs a previous gap between Greenbank and Deansgate Junction (just north of Navigation Road station), so that railway personnel are in an even better position to monitor the progress of trains on the line as they are running. Those of you with access to the Internet can also do this using the train arrivals facility on www.nationalrail.co.uk and those with WAP-enabled phones can use a similar service through www.kizoom.co.uk for this information. Very useful.
There have been a number of occasions over the last few years, still continuing, where the bridge at Lostock Gralam (bridge 54) over the road on the Manchester side of the canal is hit, usually by overheight lorries, or lorries carrying loads which are overheight. Our trains are then disrupted as many of you have experienced. It looks like we may see a resolution to this continuing problem during 2006. John Kitchen, our Community Rail Officer is involving himself in taking this forward with Cheshire County Council and Network Rail.
The plans for this year’s “leaf fall” season are well advanced. Last year, Network Rail tried a revised system of high-pressure water jetting rather than Sanditing, with Sandite being applied by hand only in the most problematic locations. This worked very well and much better than the systems in use for the previous few years. This year’s plan is to water jet the whole of the line, rather than just at the known worst locations. Hopefully, this will be even better. Fingers crossed! Otherwise, in relation to the trains, we continue to monitor the train running, with tweaking being applied as necessary. The targets of 99% reliability of trains advertised (at least 99 out of every 100 trains to run) and 91% punctuality (91% of trains to arrive at their destination within 5 minutes of their timetabled time) continue to prove elusive, but we’re getting very close. Hopefully, we might just get there before the leaf fall season comes in mid-October.
The QIT is continuing to put a lot of effort into getting the replacement bus service when we have it to work more reliably. The services work much better than when the QIT first started taking an interest in these a few years ago, (that wouldn’t have been difficult!), but we’re not there yet. David Godley, our Area Director (West) since last April has involved himself with the plans for these. We are already on version 5 of the plans, with more changes to be agreed, though mainly minor. Northern Rail intend that all their replacement bus services will soon be managed by a team based in York. David has decided he wants the plans for our line correct and agreed by all parties involved in their operation before handing them over. This is currently being worked on.
The QIT next meets on 12 September. At David’s suggestion, these meetings have now been scheduled to a regular interval to fit in with Railway performance reporting periods. Thus, we will be able to review the latest figures for the previous two 4-weekly periods just ended. Network Rail, Northern Rail and MCRUA continue to work towards improving our services. As ever, if you have suggestions for improvements or performance problems to report, please let me know.
The Partnership steering committee met in July 2005 at which the principal item on the agenda was funding for the Partnership from March 2006 onwards when the funding from the Countryside Agency comes to an end. It has been decided to solicit increased contributions from existing partners and to this end the Partnership will be making presentations around the Partners in September. All CRPs are facing this funding problem representing a paradoxical situation where CRPs have been recognised by government as part of the mainstream railway industry, but at the same time no formal funding mechanisms exist. Nevertheless the Partnership will be making strong efforts to continue beyond March 2006 and all Partners are expressing strong support.
If you have a complaint about a rail journey, the recommended procedure is to complain to the train operator first. In the case of Northern Rail, the address to write to is: Customer Relations, Northern Rail, PO Box 208, Leeds, LS1 2BU (tel 0845-600-11-59). If you are not satisfied with the response and/or compensation which you receive you can pursue the complaint with the Rail Passengers Council. Their address is RPC, Freepost, WA1521, Warrington, WA4 6GP (tel 08453-022-022). The RPC has a good record of securing increased compensation for deserving cases.
MCRUA was disappointed by the late decision to run trains through to Stockport on Saturdays in mid-summer. Many passengers were caught out by the fact that trains were leaving Altrincham for Chester at 51 minutes past the hour rather than at the advertised 08 minutes past the hour. The replacement of the Sunday service by buses between Altrincham and Northwich for many weeks also caught passengers out due to the buses being booked to leave Altrincham nearly an hour before the advertised train time. We will continue to press Northern to ensure that the pocket timetable is a true indication of what the train service will actually be. RAIL magazine informs us that Mickle Trafford signal box outside Chester is to be abolished in 2006 and its functions are to be taken over by Mouldsworth signal box. The work will no doubt entail a blockade of the mid-Cheshire line. We hope that trains can at least run as far as Greenbank this time rather than terminating at Northwich and then running empty to Greenbank to reverse, as happened during the three-day blockade of the line in June. Network Rail informs us that bridge 54 on the mid-Cheshire line (Griffiths Road at Lostock Gralam) is the ninth most bashed railway bridge in the North West. A new Metroshuttle free bus service, the no.3, is to begin operating from 25th September. The new route will link Manchester Piccadilly and Salford Central stations via the new Spinningfields development. Routes 1 and 2 are to be amended to serve Spinningfields from the same date.
The line from Skelton Junction (Timperley) to Partington, last used by revenue-earning traffic in October 1993, is to reopen by the end of 2006. The reopening is being funded by Network Rail and EWS. As predicted in a previous issue of the newsletter, the traffic will be styrene monomer from Immingham on Humberside. Some of the flyash for the Northwich Salt Mine Stabilisation scheme has recently been sourced from Ratcliffe and Uskmouth Power Stations due to issues with the quality of the flyash supplied from Drax Power Station. The trains from Ratcliffe have been operated by Freightliner Heavy Haul and the one from Uskmouth (over the August Bank Holiday weekend) was worked by EWS. The Sunday Tunstead-Northwich limestone train began running again from 7th August following a request from Brunner Mond. The Peak Forest-Bletchley stone train with its distinctive orange bogie hoppers is now regularly running via the mid-Cheshire line (the loaded train passes through Altrincham just after midnight, the empties around 15.00). The train is routed via Middlewich to Crewe.
A plan to use class 66 diesels rather than class 60s on the Tunstead-Northwich services from September has apparently been shelved. The Lafarge stone traffic from Dowlow to Northenden is said to be restarting “imminently”. The traffic stopped running because the sidings at Northenden were flooded. The Northenden and Bredbury “binliner” services to Roxby in Lincolnshire are to be taken over by Freightliner Heavy Haul as from 1st October. The Brindle Heath and Dean Lane binliners are to stay with EWS for the present. The Manisty Wharf branch at Ellesmere Port has reopened for imported coal traffic to Fiddlers Ferry Power Station near Widnes, reached via a reversal at Latchford/Arpley Junction. The 5-year contract with Freightliner Heavy Haul is for 11 loaded trains per week and the first train ran on 21st July. The coal is being conveyed by sea from Hunterston in Scotland to Ellesmere Port (reached via the Manchester Ship Canal) due to a lack of train paths on the West Coast Main Line.
Several MCRUA members have been successful in becoming station adopters for stations along the mid-Cheshire line. The ones, which are known to the Chairman are:
Navigation Road – Andrew Macfarlane, Hale – Peter Davies, Plumley – Peter Frier and Cuddington – David Miller. We are grateful for the opportunity to monitor the condition of stations and we hope that any defects, vandalism and graffiti will be sorted out more quickly as a result of the scheme.
A number of studies and reviews affecting train services in the Manchester area are in progress or in the pipeline. These include the Department for Transport Review of the Northern Rail franchise and Network Rail’s Manchester Route Utilisation Study (RUS) . Passenger counts are currently being taken as part of the Review of the Northern Rail franchise and the fear is that lightly-used trains could be proposed for withdrawal. The review is an attempt to address the high level of grant aid for Northern (£6 for every £2 taken in fares). It could be argued that it would be better to look at the issue from another angle and both improve the marketing of local rail services and further encourage Network Rail to reduce its high costs. Any service changes, which arise out of the review, will not be implemented until the December 2006 timetable change. Network Rail’s Manchester RUS may be based on pessimistic forecasts of growth in passenger numbers on local rail services and may therefore recommend that long distance services gain even greater priority for scarce paths through the Manchester area than they receive at the moment. MCRUA is still actively campaigning for the reinstatement of the morning peak train which we lost to accommodate Virgin Trains’ new Pendolino service and which has led to overcrowding on the 06.57 Chester to Manchester Piccadilly service.
The meeting arranged by Cheshire County Council to consider setting up a steering group to promote the re-opening to pasenger traffic of the Middlewich line and the re-opening of Middlewich station is to take place in September. The signalling in the Middlewich area, currently controlled from Greenbank signal box, is being replaced as part of the SWIM (Sandbach and Wilmslow) resignalling scheme. There will be an opportunity to travel on the Middlewich line on Sunday 30th October, when Virgin Trains will be diverting their Euston-Crewe-Chester-Holyhead services over the route.
The £102m upgrade scheme for Metrolink Phases 1 and 2 (the Bury, Altrincham and Eccles lines) was given conditional approval by the Department for Transport on 30th June. However the Government’s £58 million contribution is cash-limited and there is a real possibility that the tenders received by GMPTE will come in over budget. GMPTE is however confident that they can accommodate this situation from their own resources, providing that the tender prices are not significantly higher than budget. To recap, the scheme includes 8 new vehicles, the replacement of the ticket machines and the relaying of some track (mainly on the Bury line). Vehicle 1015 was named Burma Star at Piccadilly Undercroft station on 13th August in connection with the commemoration of VJ Day. Vehicle 1002 was “ex-works” from Wolverton by 14th August. Cornbrook station became open to the street as from Saturday 3rd September but the opening was extremely low-key. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have expressed their concern about the site (there were a number of robberies there when the emergency exit was open to the public) and they have suggested that the CCTV coverage and lighting need to be improved still further. GMP also suggested that there should be a staff presence at the station [a staff presence would be useful at a number of other Metrolink stations – Ed]. A number of Metrolink vehicles now have an automated public address system, which has been funded by GMPTE. The work to extend the car park at Navigation Road is to be re-tendered.
A new Metrolink Information Centre known as metrolinkonline is about to open next to the new GMPTE Travelshop in the ground floor of the “One Piccadilly” office block next to Piccadilly Gardens Metrolink station. The section of the proposed South Manchester Metrolink line between Roundthorn and Manchester Airport via Wythenshawe Hospital has been “axed” to save £39 million on the cost of building the line. Roundthorn is just south of where the Metrolink line will pass over the Altrincham-Stockport line just east of the Dresser Rand factory. The decision has not surprisingly met with considerable opposition (not least from the hospital) but it does dramatically improve the viability of the South Manchester line. An announcement on the phasing of the Phase 3 extensions to Ashton, Rochdale via Oldham and South Manchester is expected before the end of the year.
Virgin Trains is changing its advance purchase fares from 25th September. The present 14, 7 and 3–day advance deadlines are abolished and the present 14-day, 7-day and 3-day advance purchase single fares will all be available up to 18.00 on the day before travel providing that the quota is not sold out. Midland Mainline is also changing its advance purchase fares from 25th September. The present Apex, Capital and Twosome fares are to be abolished in favour of advance purchase singles similar to those offered by Virgin Trains. Cheap evening return fares are still available from and between stations from Plumley to Manchester Piccadilly (inclusive). These are half the normal cheap day return fare and are available between 18.30 and 21.00. They are now also valid for outward travel on the first train after 21.00. Return can be by any train up to the end of service that day. GM Day Saver tickets allow unlimited off–peak travel in the GMPTE area (Hale is of course the first/last station in the PTE area on the mid-Cheshire line). The bus and train version costs £3.80 and that covering train and Metrolink costs £5.00. The tram/train/bus version costs £6.50. GM Day Saver tickets can be purchased from booking offices or from the conductor on the train if boarding at an unstaffed station. They are valid after 09.30 on Monday to Friday and all day on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays. Finally GMPTE concessionary pass holders pay half fare on heavy rail and Metrolink services in Greater Manchester before 09.30 on Monday to Friday.
The weekly passenger train on the Stockport-Stalybridge line reverts to running from Stockport to Stalybridge at 11.23 on Saturdays from the September timetable change. A booking office is under construction at Horwich Parkway station to serve this busy station on the Manchester-Blackpool line. The Furness line from Carnforth to Barrow is to be blocked from 26th March to 16th July 2006 while the Leven viaduct east of Ulverston is rebuilt. Salford Central station is now open until the late evening in recognition of its proximity to much of Manchester city centre. There is a proposal to build platforms on the Liverpool line here.
The Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society is again holding its annual winter lecture series at Altrincham Methodist Church on the corner of Barrington Road and Woodlands Road, which is around 5 minutes’ walk from Altrincham station in the direction of Manchester. Please use the main entrance to the church on the Woodlands Road side of the building. All lectures are held on Fridays at 7.30pm and admission is £3 (free for AERPS members). This includes refreshments (tea/coffee and biscuits).
14th October. “In Search of Steam in South America” by John Sloane.
11th November. “Trams Old and New” by Tony Young.
9th December. “Tracks Round Britain” by Cliff Parr.
13th January. “Steam at Home and Abroad” Large screen video presentation by Geoff Monks.
10th February. “A Lifetime’s Interest in the Isle of Man Steam Railway” by Doug Darby.
10th March. “Memories of Ireland” by Harry Madden.
7th April. “Travelling the World’s Railways” by Alan Gilbert.
The SLS continues to meet in Manchester over the winter. The venue remains the Friends’ Meeting House in Mount Street (on the other side of the Central Library from St Peters Square Metrolink station) and meetings are held on Saturdays at 14.00. Non-members are welcome.
1st October. “The Impact of Community Rail” by Drew Haley of Northern Rail.
5th November. “The Restaging of the Rainhill Trials and the Making of the TV Programme” by John P Glithero.
3rd December. “From Cleaner to Driver” by Eric Hickson (who began his career at Northwich in 1941).
21st January. Area AGM followed by: “The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad” by Tom Spires.
18th February. “Vulcan Foundry and its Locomotives” by Ian Fisher.
18th March. “Thomas Brassey, the World’s Greatest Railway Contractor” by John Millar.
The following people have joined MCRUA since the previous issue of the newsletter was published:
Mr Thomas Carter, Alvanley, Frodsham
Mr Paul Margetts, Hale
Mr Rodney E Jones, Timperley
We say farewell to Jason Avison, who was for a number of years the railman at Northwich station. We wish him well for the future. Northwich station is currently being staffed by relief men and we hope that Northern is able to find a permanent replacement for Jason soon. Louise Cordwell, who was the Customer Services Manager covering the mid-Cheshire line until she transferred within First North Western, has moved to Greater Manchester PTE, where she is the Departmental Manager, Transport Services. We wish her well in her new job.
Opinions expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily reflect the views of the MCRUA committee.
National Rail Enquiries 08457 48 49 50 (24 hours a day)
The Trainline (bookings by telephone) 08457 222 333
Freephone number to report crime on the railway 0800 40 50 40
Northern Rail Train Running Information 0800-528-0200 or 0870 602 33 22
Northern Rail Customer Relations 0845 600 11 59
Rail Passengers Council (complaints appeals) 08453 022 022
Helpline for Manchester Piccadilly station 0845 0000 033
GMPTE Bus, Rail and Metrolink Enquiries 0161 228 7811 (08.00 to 20.00)
Metrolink Enquiries 0161 205 2000
Cheshire Traveline (bus and rail enquiries) 01244 602666 (08.00 to 20.00)
Merseyside PTE Public Transport Enquiry Line 0151-236-7676 (08.00 to 20.00)
National Public Transport Enquiry Line 0870 608 2 608
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN AND NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Andrew Macfarlane, 25 Prestbury Avenue, Timperley, Altrincham WA15 8HY.Tel: 0161-928-9394.
SECRETARY
Mike Honeyman, 36 Navigation Road, Northwich, Cheshire, CW8 1BE.Tel: 01606-74920.
MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY
John Allen,36 Townfields, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 8DR.Tel: 01565-632437.
MINUTES SECRETARY & SPECIAL TRAINS
Peter Frier, 2 Hawthorn Road, Plumley, Knutsford WA16 OUH.Tel: 01565-722140.
WEBMASTER
Arthur Sancto, 8 Roxby Way, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 9AX.Tel: 01565-651209.
COMMITTEE MEMBER & LOCAL REP FOR HALE
Peter Davies, 53 Acacia Avenue, Hale, Altrincham, WA15 8QY.Tel: 0161-233-0438.
Middlewich & West Cheshire Sub-Committee Chairman: Dave Roberts, 5 Whitley Close, Middlewich, CW10 0NQ. Tel: 01606-833404 (home), 07900-194975 (mobile).
Hartford & Winsford Sub-Committee Chairman: Andrew Macfarlane (details above).
John Oates ”Swallowfield", Slade Lane, Mobberley, Knutsford, WA16 7QN. Tel: 01565-873059 (home), 07860-513309 (mobile), Email: john.oates@bakertilly.co.uk
John Kitchen Mobile number: 07909-872667
Membership of the association costs £4 for individuals, £6 for families and £12 for corporate bodies.
If you wish to join please return the form below to MCRUA, 25 Prestbury Avenue, Timperley, Altrincham WA15 8HY. Please make cheques payable to "Mid Cheshire Rail Users Association".
Please send any subscription renewals to John Allen, 36 Townfields, Knutsford, WA16 8DR.
Name ________________________________________________
Address_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
09/05 __________________________Postcode_______________
Family/Individual* New Member/Renewal*
* Please delete as appropriate