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In October 2023, the operator announced that it would be temporarily cutting services from 320 services per day to 300, reducing off-peak trains between the cities of Leeds and Manchester, with the goal of improving both punctuality and reliability. TransPennine Trains' managing director, Chris Jackson, stated that this move allowed for greater ...
Panoramic view of the completed Ordsall Chord with the River Irwell, Aviva studios and the Prince's bridge in 2024. Ordsall Chord, also known as the Castlefield Curve, is a short railway line in Ordsall, Salford, England, which links Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road to Manchester Victoria, designed to increase capacity and reduce journey times into and through Manchester.
A rail tunnel has been proposed for the corridor, as part of the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040. [ 9 ] UK rail advocacy group Railfuture has noted that the reinstatement of the Glazebrook East Junction–Skelton Junction line , along with its former branch to Carrington Power Station and an extension of the branch to Flixton , would ...
Any route is permitted, so the passenger has a choice of embarking from either Piccadilly, Oxford Road or Deansgate on the TransPennine Express North West route, the Northern route or from Victoria by Northern Trains. The Manchester station group is a station group (for fares purposes) of four railway stations in Manchester city centre, England ...
Between 1988 and 1989, Piccadilly's through platforms 13 and 14 were further lengthened, [24] [25] in conjunction with the opening of the Windsor Link chord in Salford, which allowed trains from places to the north of Manchester, such as Bolton, Preston, Blackpool and Scotland, to run directly into Piccadilly via the through platforms and ...
Hadfield is the eastern terminus for local trains to/from Manchester Piccadilly. From 1954 until 1984 the station was served by Class 506 electric multiple units (EMUs), latterly the only British Rail EMUs capable of operating on the Woodhead Line's non-standard 1,500 V DC electric system.
Northern Trains operate local services over the full length of the line. These include limited stop workings from Manchester Airport and Hazel Grove via Manchester Piccadilly to Blackpool North, along with Manchester Victoria to Preston services and a limited number of Manchester Airport to Barrow-in-Furness and Windermere trains.
TransPennine Express had depots for its train crews at Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Airport (conductors), York, Newcastle, Scarborough, Hull, Cleethorpes, Sheffield, Preston, Liverpool Lime Street and Glasgow Central.