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On past Sundays, links from Manchester Piccadilly to destinations including Buxton, Chester and Crewe, and the line from Blackpool South to Preston, have all been badly affected by staff shortages.
Trains to Manchester Airport have been affected by the theft of more than £100,000 of power cable from a railway line. The signalling cables were stolen from the railway line between Preston and ...
Passengers on Northern are experiencing cancellations between Rochdale and Clitheroe due to a points failure, while some trains linking Blackpool South with Preston and Manchester Piccadilly with ...
The south side's services radiate from Manchester Piccadilly and run to Manchester Airport, south Manchester, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Leeds, North East England, London and other major destinations. [2] The region's rail network started to develop during the Industrial Revolution, when it was at the centre of a textile manufacturing boom. [5]
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 ...
Westbound coal train between Ravensthorpe and Mirfield in 1953. At the time of the 1923 Grouping, most of the route followed by the line was over London and North Western Railway (LNWR) metals; the exception was a short stretch around Mirfield, which was the property of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR). [4]
Hundreds of people have been forced to leave their homes after heavy rain and floods battered large parts of north-west England, leaving cars abandoned and cancelling trains. Greater Manchester ...
The Hope Valley line is a trans-Pennine railway line in Northern England, linking Manchester with Sheffield.It was completed in 1894. Passenger services on the line are operated by Northern Trains, East Midlands Railway and TransPennine Express, while the quarries around Hope, producing stone and cement, provide a source of freight traffic.