For those that follow the MCRUA Chairman’s Blog, your advance notice of our next excursion. Our next excursion will be The North Eastern Express, on Saturday 7th May 2011, for Darlington, Durham and Newcastle. There will be an optional trip to the Beamish Living Museum of the North. Our on-line booking office for this excursion opens on 1st December 2010.
Back in May 2000, 5 stops on our line had their status changed to “request” – Mouldsworth, Delamere, Lostock Gralam, Mobberley and Ashley. This was in the days when the train running performance on the line was dreadful. The idea for the request stops came from the newly-established Mid Cheshire Train Running Quality Improvement Team […]
Here’s work in progress replacing the ricketty old steps from the road bridge down to the Up side (Manchester-bound) platform at Plumley Station. There’s some serious foundations going in here. Looks like they should last for the next 150 years! The finished job….
Yesterday’s Music Train went very well. We had 25 people on the train on a cold, dry autumn night. The young country music band were excellent (Rusty Cadillacs) and their repertoire included ‘Merseyrail’ and ‘Night Train to Chester’ – both their own compositions. They varied the style between the train and the pub and finished […]
Next time you go into Manchester, you should see the new Metroshuttle buses. These replace the previous ones that are now over 5 years old. Probably something to do with the leases on the old vehicles being up. The new ones are diesel-electric hybrids, and again are from Optare in Leeds. These work by the […]
It’s our last Music Train of the year, and what a year it’s been! If you can come along tonight to Plumley, come and celebrate with us – details here.
Sally tells us it was an excellent day at Greenbank last Saturday – CWAC, Weavervale, 3 local PCSOs, the Church, BTCV and 6 young people off the estate planted young trees including hazel, crab apple and blackthorn(?). This is counting towards the CWAC Safer Stronger Communities initiative in the Greenbank area. Young people and partners […]
Our line’s Stations Manager, Chris Ingham, has to get out and about as part of his job, liaising with his staff, checking the facilities, seeing what needs doing and also being involved where others need to encroach on Northern’s lease area. Here’s Chris last Wednesday on a quick visit to Mobberley on the way to […]
Thanks to the Forestry Commission, Delamere is the first station along our line to have sponsored signs. “Delamere – The forest station – From tracks to trails” Here’s our Community Rail Officer, Sally Buttifant, our Northern Line Manager, Chris Ingham and the Forestry Commission’s CRP representative, Richard Mostyn. Passenger figures at Delamere are increasing faster […]
Christmas certainly must be coming judging by the loadings on the Saturday trains along the line. Here’s the 1303 from Chester leaving Hale yesterday very full. I came back on the 2346 from Hale to Mobberley. 142028 again, and again very full even at a few minutes to midnight. Why does the last train run […]
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