Northern issues a warning this Easter weekend for travelling around Manchester
Northern have said that you must check before you travel this Easter weekend due to possible delays and cancellations from engineering work.
Northern said: “Trains will run on Easter Sunday and the bank holidays, but some routes have reduced services, with a few closed completely.”
Adding: “There will be no train services running to, from or through Stockport due to engineering works on Saturday, 19 April, Sunday, 20 April and Monday, 21 April.”
Northern will run rail replacement services on the following routes:
- Manchester Piccadilly and Stockport/Hazel Grove (fast and stopping)
- Stockport and Stoke-on-Trent (fast and stopping)
- Stockport and Altrincham (Saturday and Monday only)
- Manchester Piccadilly, Stockport, Altrincham and Chester (Sunday only)
- Stockport and Wilmslow (fast and stopping)
- Wilmslow, Macclesfield and Stoke-on-Trent (fast).
This engineering work will be affecting other train servcies too such as: EMR, CrossCountry, Avanti, TransPennine Express and Transport for Wales.
If you’ve already bought a ticket for a train going through Stockport, don’t worry because it will be accepted on other rail services running between Manchester Piccadilly, Wilmslow and Heald Green.
On Sunday, the following lines will be affected:
- Leeds - Manchester Victoria - Chester services will run between Leeds and Manchester Victoria only. Trains will call additionally at intermediate stations between Todmorden and Manchester Victoria. You can use Transport for Wales services Manchester Piccadilly and Chester via Earlestown at no extra cost
- Manchester Oxford Road - Southport services will run to a reduced timetable.
- Manchester Victoria - Clitheroe services will run to a reduced train service between Bolton – Blackburn and buses will run between Blackburn – Clitheroe.
- Manchester - Wigan Wallgate via Bolton services will be diverted and will not call at Salford Crescent. Buses will run between Bolton and Wigan.
However, Northern have said that: “Customers can use TransPennine Express services between Manchester Piccadilly and Stalybridge, and local bus services between Manchester and Salford Crescent, at no extra cost.”
Adding: “Engineering works are also due to affect services running between Manchester Victoria and Leeds from Saturday, 19 April to Monday, 21 April. Trains running via Dewsbury will be diverted via Bradford Interchange and Halifax, and will not call at Cottingley, Morley, Batley, Dewsbury, Mirfield and Brighouse.”