Purple Orange
On Moderation
This all tells me that the route is more trouble than it's worth, and a Metrolink-Merseyrail solution can't come too soon.
The more lines converted, the better.
I’ll tell you what else can’t come too soon though. The splitting of the Southport-Alderley Edge service. 2-car 150 on the peak service running through Manchester at half 5. Why is that service, one of the busiest of the day for that route, scheduled for a 2-car DMU? It’s too regular a pattern for it to be one-offs.
Give me the reliability and consistency of everything starting in the Piccadilly main platforms, with EMUs, over the unreliability and inconstancy of Castlefield. It’s a huge shame that Castlefield can’t be made to work intensively because there is so much potential to use it as a regional metro line (Salford Central to Victoria too).