Next Sunday, 17th March, trains are replaced by buses, or at least we think they are.
The National Rail website refers only to engineering work between Manchester and Stalybridge, and to buses replacing trains between Victoria and Stalybridge, and last time we looked, neither Marsden nor Slaithwaite was situated between Manchester and Stalybridge.
However Northern Rail, who ought to know whether or not their trains are running, have produced a timetable showing hourly buses between Victoria and Huddersfield. As seems to be usual practice now when replacement buses are provided, the bus stops are on Manchester Road, which Northern Rail insist on referring to as Marsden and Slaithwaite “town centres”.
Metro, characteristically, either don’t know about it or don’t think that the travelling public need to know about it. Or maybe they don’t think Marsden and Slaithwaite are in their area.
Link to Northern Rail’s timetable is at
http://www.northernrail.org/pdfs/trackworks/5110_with_maps.pdf