TransPennine Express

[First Class]

RE: First Transpennine Express

(13/02/2014 08:02)childwallblues Wrote:  

(08/01/2014 18:14)wirralbus Wrote:  

(08/01/2014 17:25)First Class Wrote:  If it was going to stop anywhere else it should be Newton-le-Willows, people from Chester/North Wales could change just once at a nice easy station like NLW, same platform interchange rather than having to navigate their way around Manchester. As it is, the TPE service runs 2½ minutes in front of the ATW service meaning that such a connection can't be made.

So if the service from Liverpool service is late , it will have to run behind the ATW service .

Is that a problem? The ATW service is non stop between MCO and NLW.

Linespeed is partly 90mph up there too, with ATW services being timed at 75mph over that section, so if ATW is late, it can make time up there anyway. Usually ends up being 2-4 minutes early into Newton-le-Willows on the way back to Chester as a result, and similarly, can arrive into Manchester Oxford Road a few minutes early too.

(Example, http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Y9.../advanced)
Arrived into Newton-le-Willows at 15:09¼, not booked to leave until 1512½. Therefore it can make 3 minutes up easy.