For years many have been complaining about the danger for pedestrians using the road bridge at Delamere Station due to the speed of the traffic and there only being a narrow footpath on the side away from the station. The Northwich Guardian reported yesterday about a potential redevolopment which may sort this.
Bus Route 88 Knutsford – Knutsford Station – Morley Green – Wilmslow – Wilmslow Station – Hale Barns – Altrincham Interchange has been relaunched today with a doubling in frequency to half-hourly. Now with leather seats, free wifi and even tables! The service previously didn’t call at Wilmslow station; this greater transport integration is very […]
Pictures from today courtesy of Mike Battman, taken around 8.30am. Thanks, Mike!
Following discission of the Mid Cheshire Train Running Performance figures a few months ago, Dave Allen, District Maintenance Manager West for Northern, invited us to send a party on a visit to Northern’s Newton Heath Depot. This is where the trains on the Mid Cheshire Line are maintained apart from the class 156s, which are […]
Campaign for Better Transport has released a briefing entitled “North of England rail services: Busting the myths”. Well worth a read. There’s some interesting “myths” discussed in here, including: – “The north’s railways are heavily subsidised”. This depends how you work the sums out …. Assuming the same train track access charge for a single […]
Ronnie Oliver, booking office staff at Knutsford has retired after 46 years on the Railway. All those years ago, Ronnie joined British Rail at Stretford as a junior member of the platform staff. He progressed to Timperley, then Warwick Road (now named Old Trafford) before becoming a relief member of staff at Altrincham. On the […]
We have received the following through “Campaign for Better Transport”. (Please note responses can be sent direct to Government or through the template provided by Campaign for Better Transport – see below). ************************************************************************ “The Chancellor of the Exchequer is asking people to email him with suggestions for what spending commitments he should make in his […]
Paul Wilkinson writes: Services on Metrolink’s new line to Manchester Airport will open to passengers on Monday 3 November – well over 12 months ahead of schedule. The final stage of a thorough pre-launch process will start on Monday 20 October when test trams will start to run out of service between Cornbrook and the […]
Planned works on Metrolink during rest of October: Altrincham to City Centre. Check with Metrolink before travel at weekends: Saturday 18 October 2014 No trams Bury or Central Park to City Centre. Tram services will operate: •Altrincham to Piccadilly (likely to be a double tram every 12minutes) •Altrincham to Etihad Campus •Ashton-Under-Lyne to Eccles via […]
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