@WimpyTweets@northernassist It was a silly idea planning to take a train to walk from Edale on a Bank Holiday Sunday! One East Midlands train in but a very uncertain way back😨Don't bother.
@northernassist There's clearly nothing you can do but on Saturday many intending users couldn't even get aboard overcrowded 2 car trains on the Hope Valley line between Sheffield and Manchester. Today's solution of not running any trains at all is a classic!
Update at 05.45
Police and Paramedics are now on site at Palmersville and we are hoping to resume the service shortly.
Thank you for your continued patience while we deal with this issue.
@northernassist@hopheaddarrell It's a generic issue that must be known. I reported it at Dore & Totley over a month ago. The description narrative should scroll along to explain more about the train crash/crew shortage/crisis. I saw a group of older ladies calmly arranging car shares because of a train crash
@hopheaddarrell I have reported the screen issue to be looked into. The 0911 service to Lincoln Central is cancelled due to a member of train crew being unavailable. I'm sorry for this. ^LN
A train WHAT? @northernassist ?
Crash?
Crushing a passenger to death?
Cruising for gay sex?
These displays really need to scroll. Enquiring minds want to know.
@nationalrailenq Looks like there are some ongoing disruptions on the railway line between Sheffield and Stockport, specifically near Grindleford. 😔
According to various sources, the delays are due to a combination of factors, including urgent track repairs, points failures, and signalling
@nationalrailenq "Trains between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield will terminate / start at Grindleford." How are people expected to get to/from Sheffield from Grindleford? The 65 bus runs 5 times a day.
@MEMRAP1 It's taken about 25 years from first plans to delivery. Since deciding there was a problem to delivering the solution a lot has happened. See how passenger numbers were growing before Covid.
#HopeValleyupgrade To encourage campaigners that railways can still be built and expanded, here is today's first use of the new Platform 1 at Dore and Totley - 05:21 with six coaches of TPE stock, Sheffield to Liverpool - great day for Sheffield-Manchester reliability.
@OriginalKooLaLa@strangetown@AnneLouiseAvery Looks like a neat wedge was cut at a calculated angle as shown by the paint. It was a powerful chainsaw to achieve such clean cuts. They, and I suspect there was another party present, knew what they were doing - but why?
@strangetown@AnneLouiseAvery It's very badly cut. He was lucky he didn't kill himself. There should have been a wedge cut first and it should have been cut at an angle.
What will happen to the men who felled the Great Tree on Picts' Wall, asked Old Fox. The Lady Coventina will rise from her course below, said the King, & draw their torn & tattered souls down past the sweet harebells & the glass beads & the rings of jet, down past the soldiers' bones & the luck-worn coins, down into the far earth where all the dark things of this world are buried in the end of ends.
It has been another busy weekend for @networkrail and @VolkerRailUK at Totley and Dore & Totley station as work continues on the Hope Valley upgrade. This afternoon @GBRailfreight 66734 “Platinum Jubilee” & 66735 were ballast dropping on newly laid track at Totley Tunnel East
@TPEassist@CMcgourlay@TPExpressTrains TPE used to run a 6 coach train at 7.14 to Manchester from Dore. Over the last fortnight it has run 8 times out of a possible 20. This week has started with another no show. TPE seems to have a death wish. I was planning to use this train on Wednesday. I won't even try.
@CMcgourlay@TPExpressTrains That's interesting. TPE charge £24.00 to Manchester, currently with 50:50 probability that it will run at all. An EMR fast service is the same price but usually runs with only two carriages. Northern takes 25 minutes longer for £8 but usually runs.
@CMcgourlay@TPExpressTrains Over the last 4 weeks this train has run on 8 days and not run on 12. Pre Covid over 100 boarded at Dore. Now most have given up on the railway altogether. I'm planning to use the Northern slow train on Wednesday!
#S17#RosamondAvenue
We are carrying out repairs in the area. Customers may have no water or low pressure while we complete this. Apologies for any inconveniance caused. ~ Libby