The Community Rail Partnership Marvellous Days Out mugs are now on sale at Knutsford Heritage Centre on King Street. They are based on the poster design for Knutsford and also show the route of the Mid Cheshire Line. The mugs have been specially designed for the Community Rail Partnership by Nicky Thompson of Lemondrop Creative who drew the iconic poster. Heraldic Pottery of Stoke-on-Trent have produced the mugs in Staffordshire bone china. They are on sale for £11.95. …
AMAZING WOMEN BY RAIL
To mark the special significance of 2018 for women, an imaginative booklet ‘Discover Amazing Women by Rail’ has been launched. Part of the Marvellous Days Out series, the booklet highlights the extraordinary lives of women – including Knutsford’s Elizabeth Gaskell and Alison Uttley – who have lived in 32 towns, villages or cities with stations along the Mid-Cheshire line (Chester to Manchester) and Calder Valley Line (Leeds to Manchester). The free booklet along …
MAY 2018 TIMETABLE
John Oates, as Chair of the Mid Cheshire Community Rail Partnership, attended a meeting at Northern’s offices last week in relation to the May 2018 Timetable change. He heard this timetable is to run until December 2018 when there will be a further change. These further delays are due to Network Rail’s inability to electrify between Manchester and Bolton on time, meaning the planned cascade of diesel trains onto other lines such as ours cannot happen as diesel trains will need to …
SATURDAY EVENING BUS REPLACEMENTS
There is engineering work on the Mid Cheshire Line this coming Saturday 17th March 2018 .... The following 5 services will be cancelled and will be replaced by rail replacement buses; 21.17 from Manchester to Chester21.33 from Chester to Manchester22.17 from Manchester to Chester22.48 from Chester to Manchester 23.17 from Manchester to Chester The following replacement bus services call at all stations today: ManchesterPiccadilly to Chester21:17, arr 00:2022:17, arr 01:2023:17, arr …
