 Greater Manchester TIF and Stockport
"Charlie Hulme" <info@davenportstation.org.uk> wrote in message
news:Zf6Ek.6579$%54.4263@newsfe28.ams2...
>I just found the following in one of the booklets:
>
> Planned Improvements:
> • extending some Manchester to Hazel Grove trains to New Mills Newtown to
> serve a park and ride facility;
> • improving the train services for park and ride passengers at Hazel Grove
> by stopping all Manchester to Sheffield services there;
> • platforms will be lengthened as appropriate;
> • Bramhall and Woodsmoor stations will be improved;
> • improvements to the transport interchange facilities between the bus and
> rail stations in Stockport; and
> • extra capacity to reduce overcrowding and enable more people to use the
> service.
>
> Stopping all Manchester to Sheffield trains at Hazel Grove! What do we
> think of that idea? Does the DfT know about it?
>
> Charlie
More important, even if DfT, TPE & EMT cooperate, how will they fit any more
passengers into trains that are already full ?
Bevan |