The new timetable has now been\npublished and Slaithwaite and Marsden will see significant improvements to peak\ntrain services in the December 2019 timetable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the May 2018 timetable fiasco\nSMART along with our colleagues from Mossley & Greenfield have met with\nTfGM, WYCA, Transport for the North (TfN), TransPennine-Express and Greater\nManchester Mayor Andy Burnham, and took our concerns direct to the then\nSecretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indeed, we had been talking to some\nof these organisations as far back as 2011 to set out our concerns about what\nthe May 2018 timetable pattern would mean for Slaithwaite, Marsden, Greenfield\nand Mossley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TPE and TfN have listened to our\nconcerns, and understood why things needed to change, and the result is a new\ntimetable from December 2019 which will deliver:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It involves changes which the railway industry\nspent the past seven years insisting were impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s a strange anomaly in that Northern\nwill continue to manage both Slaithwaite & Marsden stations, even though\nnone of their trains will call at either station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For historical reasons which no\nlonger make much sense, there\u2019s more than one timetable showing train services\nat stations between Stalybridge and Huddersfield. Northern\u2019s version of the new\ntimetable, or at least that past of it between Manchester and Huddersfield, is\nonline at https:\/\/d2cf7kiw5xizhy.cloudfront.net\/images\/timetables\/2019-10\/dec-may-timetables\/Northern_25_booklet_1219_24pp.pdf<\/a>. This is the only version of the timetable to show\nconnecting services to Manchester Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n TPE has published a timetable showing\ntrains at all intermediate stations between Manchester and Leeds. They have\nalso published a much larger timetable, showing all their services on the North\nTranspennine Route between Liverpool\/Manchester and Leeds\/Hull\/\nScarborough\/York\/Middlesbrough\/Newcastle. Link is https:\/\/www.tpexpress.co.uk\/travel-updates\/timetables<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s one unexpected downside, which is that the first weekday eastbound train is approximately 20 minutes later than at present. Since May 2014 this was at 0614 from Marsden, in May 2018 this changed to 0610. From 15th December 2019 this will be 0630 from Marsden. TPE acknowledge that there are passengers who will be inconvenienced by this, but acknowledging an issue is only the first step towards finding a solution. SMART made a suggestion which we thought could provide a solution, but we have been given reasons why our suggested solution can\u2019t be implemented at present. We will continue to make the case for an eastbound train giving an arrival time in Leeds before 7am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The new timetable has now been published and Slaithwaite and Marsden will see significant improvements to peak train services in the December 2019 timetable. Since the May 2018 timetable fiasco SMART along with our colleagues from Mossley & Greenfield have … Continue reading