Tag Archives: Transpennine Route Upgrade

“Public consultation opens on TRU Stalybridge to Saddleworth plans”

Posted on September 16, 2024 by admin

[from Network Rail press release, 16 September 2024] Images have been released showing the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) changes coming to the railway and stations between Stalybridge tunnel and Diggle (Saddleworth). The public consultation on this area of the route … Continue reading →

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After 25 years of vague promises, we want definite commitments

Posted on August 28, 2024 by admin

As a rail users’ group at the midpoint between Leeds and Manchester, we have followed the stop-start (but mostly stop) progress of the Transpennine Route Upgrade and all of its previous incarnations with great interest, and argued for outcomes which … Continue reading →

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Engineering Works and Bus Replacement, 10th & 11th September

Posted on September 9, 2022 by admin

TPE will be running a bus replacement service both directions between Manchester Piccadilly and Huddersfield, also calling at Stalybridge, Mossley, Greenfield, Marsden, Slaithwaite. Additionally, TPE will be running a shuttle bus service between Manchester Piccadilly and Stalybridge, and Northern will … Continue reading →

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“Transport Secretary more than trebles investment for rail in the north to over £9 billion”

Posted on July 20, 2022 by admin

Pardon just a tiny bit of cynicism on our part. The North Transpennine route was acknowledged as being full in 1999. Railtrack (as was) produced glossy brochures of what they would do to increase capacity, and handed out those brochures … Continue reading →

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