Stephen Farrow

Charlie Hulme wrote:
> Stephen Farrow wrote:
>
>> Journey times after conversion to Metrolink, yes, will be slower, but
>> the route will serve a great many more people, and any means of
>> getting the railway to serve Oldham and Rochdale town centres properly
>> would be considerably more expensive than conversion to Metrolink.
>
> An obvious case for "Tram-Trains", you might think. This just the
> context in which they have been used elswehere.

And certainly, most of the planned new/resited stations along the line
outside Oldham and Rochdale town centres could be done without
converting the line to Metrolink, bringing the service within walking
distance of many more people. It's just the town centres themselves that
present a more difficult problem (though I'm not sure I see much
difference between conversion to Metrolink and running "tram-trains"
along the line, into Oldham and Rochdale town centres, and into
Manchester city centre via the Metrolink tracks).

The higher Metrolink frequency, though, is going to make Beal Lane in
Shaw an absolute nightmare.

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Stephen

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