Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
As u mentioned, this is a simple piece of additional infrastructure less than 500 metres long...and yet here we have some 84 pages of comments on it. The mind boggles....
I think you have to realise that this thread started when the bid process was still in process and has covered quite a long period of time which has seen aspirations raised culminating in the success of the bid that covered the Weavers Triangle refurbishments works plus the Todmorden Chord works.
Matters then proceeded with hope springing eternal in the hearts of those forum members who saw the new service as being one to aid the rail travel between East Lancashire and Manchester and were at pains to reiterate the time savings that would be made. The thread then covered a number of postings regarding the service offered by TransDev on the X43 Lancashire Witch service that runs with a very modern fleet of double-decker buses.
Finally, there came the news that the Spring 2014 hoped-for new rail service would not take place for nine months as there was said to be no rolling stock available to run it.