Future of the Rail Network in the North

[knutstransport]

RE: Future of the Rail Network in the North

(19/06/2016 14:25)T42 PVM Wrote:  Just been watching THIS VIDEO Where the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority have talked about the plans for the Railway over the next few years, Here are the main points:

• St Helens to get direct Trains to Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh
• St Helens to get more local Services (Sadly it does not say exactly what Services this will be)
• Huyton, Newton-Le-Willows and Warrington Will get more Trains to Manchester Airport
• Southport to get direct Train to Braford and Leeds
• Liverpool to get more express Services to Manchester
• Runcorn East to get a direct Service to Leeds (From the Heslby - Ellesmere Port Line?)
• Liverpool City Centre to get a new Railway Station (No mention of the location)
  

Some of these have never been mentioned before and no start date was mentioned but with how it was worded these plans will happen.

TfGM have this week said the slower Liverpool-Yorkshire Chat Moss service (calling at St Helens Junction) will now be a Liverpool to Middlesbrough service, so presumably Scarborough will become a Manchester Airport service at the next recast. TPE have confirmed they'll be Manchester Airport to Newcastle and Liverpool to Edinburgh via York services - the latter will have a Intercity style stopping pattern.

From December 2017 Northern will operate a Liverpool-Manchester Airport via Earlestown stopper and a Liverpool-Manchester Airport via Warrington Central semi-fast*. Also included is an hourly Leeds-Bradford-Manchester-Runcorn East-Chester* service will be diverted to Ellesmere Port at peak times (when ATW operate peak time extras to Chester.)

The Southport-Leeds** will be a diversion of the Southport-Airport service to Victoria and joining it on to the Victoria-Rochdale-Dewsbury-Leeds service.

* Will get new CAF 195s once they arrive
** Will get cascaded 170s from Scotrail