Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul

[Gordon V]

RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul

(12/09/2017 07:15)boby32 Wrote:  Looks like the additional platform is underway

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@...494725811/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@...494725811/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@...494725811/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@...494725811/

Obviously taken some time ago those pictures,the tracks are laid now in what will be the 2 new platforms

[Gordon V]

RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul
Freightliner locos 66550 and 66951 at Lime Street today during the start of the engineering blockade

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul
This of course is just the start. In link below is a list of provisional dates for future works.

Future Works

http://nw-sparks.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/...works.html

Credit: North West Sparks News Blog.

[Gordon V]

RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul
66590 at Lime St today

[childwallblues]

RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul

(01/10/2017 08:35)Gordon V Wrote:  66590 at Lime St today

So what are your duties for three weeks Gordon?

[Gordon V]

RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul

(01/10/2017 10:28)childwallblues Wrote:  So what are your duties for three weeks Gordon?

No change to them

[ant17612]

RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul
Freightliner loco's involved this weekend: 66546, 66550, 66551, 66590, 66597, 66951
Colas loco's involved this weekend: 56087, 56113, 70802, 70806, 70811, 70815

56s on engineers in Merseyside in 2017, who'd of thought it? =D

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul
We were promised 'quality' rail replacement bus services during this blockade, well unfortunately 'quality' is not how I would describe my journey this afternoon from Liverpool to St Helens Central. First of all, the operator was a coach company from Walsall, West MIdlands - where are the modern vehicles form a certain local bus operator that rail passengers in other areas of the City Region have enjoyed when they have had major blockades recently. Then at Huyton, there was a driver changeover which took approximately 15 minutes (why this couldn't have been done at either end of the journey is a mystery), in Prescot, the coach nearly turned into a street with a dead end (and if I hadn't have intervened, it would have done). With all these delays, it missed the train connection at St Helens Central by a good 10 minutes. Hardly 'quality' is it.

[RedPanda]

RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul

(01/10/2017 19:14)St Helens Rider Wrote:  We were promised 'quality' rail replacement bus services during this blockade, well unfortunately 'quality' is not how I would describe my journey this afternoon from Liverpool to St Helens Central. First of all, the operator was a coach company from Walsall, West MIdlands - where are the modern vehicles form a certain local bus operator that rail passengers in other areas of the City Region have enjoyed when they have had major blockades recently. Then at Huyton, there was a driver changeover which took approximately 15 minutes (why this couldn't have been done at either end of the journey is a mystery), in Prescot, the coach nearly turned into a street with a dead end (and if I hadn't have intervened, it would have done). With all these delays, it missed the train connection at St Helens Central by a good 10 minutes. Hardly 'quality' is it.

Is that the one where a passenger complained that he'd just missed the train for Wigan, moaning about being late for work?
Nice thing about that coach was it was nice and cool with part leather seating

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul
Some trips are not even running and some coaches are missing out stops, has been very poor all round tbh