Northern Trains Ltd

[mikestone]

RE: Northern Trains Ltd
I notice that the Southport-Alderley Edge service, which the GMCA minutes claim is running due to Northern meeting their request to serve Oxford Road for the hospital, but is in fact just where the service is booked to run, are timed at 75mph to Bolton then 100mph 319 timings forward to Piccadilly - hardly conducive to right time presentation through the Castlefield corridor. Also slightly odd is that the timing load then changes again at Picc to 319 rather than 319 100mph, while in the opposite direction they run Alderley-Picc at 100 then just 319 timings forward.
Obviously these times are in preperation for 769s operating but it still seems odd.