Look out for Northern’s images which are being used to promote essential travel only and to encourage social distancing. The images are appearing on Northen’s social media channels, stations and in the media. Signage to encourage social distancing have now been installed at Manchester Oxford Road and Victoria stations. Further stations will follow over …
Changes will be made to Northern train services from Monday 18 May. These are based around a capacity uplift on some routes (lengthening of train formation), frequency uplift on others whilst a small number of routes will see train service resumptions. The matrix below shows the detail with any changes compared to the current Key …
Network Rail continue to make good progress with the works in the Parton area following severe damage to the railway bridge and sea wall. Internal delivery teams have developed a programme of work to repair the bridge and sea wall and are currently on schedule to reopen the line to train services by June 2020. …
Daryn Davies is raising money for St Mary’s Hospice by selling his unique photographs of Ulverston for just £5 each. Daryn’s pictures are completely unique having been been edited in a vibrant and colourful way. Mr Davies chose St Mary’s Hospice as his charity due to losing both his parents to cancer. So far Mr …
Northern has continued to take into account stakeholder and customer feedback during the Emergency Timetable period to make amendments where we can. From Monday 20th April will be making the following changes to service: – The current Southport-Stalybridge service via Bolton and Manchester Victoria will operate to and from Manchester Oxford Road. This is …
Northern has reported that over the Easter weekend there will be a number of engineering possessions on the Rail Network which will affect Northern services in the following locations: • West Coast Mainline (Preston to Euxton/Wigan) • Liverpool City Region (Services to/from Liverpool Lime Street) In line with the current government guidance, it is important …
Northern is pleased to report that it will be able to run a full service (with the reduced timetable) tomorrow, between Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven using single line working over the Eskmeals Viaduct. Journey times have been extended slightly with typically ten minutes being added between Bootle and Drigg. Some services will be retimed as a …
Following the post on 7 April, a revised timetable has been issued by Northern. See below for revised Timetable: https://www.communityrailcumbria.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Northern-amended-timetable-BIF-MLM-BIF.doc As there may be changes to times, always check before you travel (see link below) http://www.journeycheck.com/northern/
Network Rail have announced that the rail line over Eskmeals viaduct, south of Ravenglass station, is blocked to ALL rail traffic until further notice. This will affect services from Millom to Whitehaven and vice versa. The problem is due to defective timbers Rail replacement transport provided by Northern have been arranged between Millom and Whitehaven. …
Northern’s key worker timetable is being introduced from Tuesday 24 change from the normal daily timetable, with a specific focus to deliver an effective public transport service for key workers. See details of Carlisle – Barrow – Lancaster, and Windermere – Lancaster timetable below: Keyworkers timetable Monday-Saturday