Pinchpoint in Manchester
Published by RAILFUTURE – campaigning for a bigger, better railway No 163 £3 April 2020 To Preston & Scotland To Blackburn To Calder Valley, Bradford & Leeds Rochdale Bolton Salford Salford Manchester To Southport Victoria Stalybridge & Kirkby Crescent Central To Hudderseld Graphic: ELLIE KING Wigan WINDSOR & Leeds To Liverpool LINK ORDSALL Eccles CHORD TRAFFORD Manchester PARK Piccadilly To Widnes CASTLEFIELD CORRIDOR Hadeld & Liverpool Warrington WEST COAST MAIN LINE MAIN WEST COAST Deansgate Oxford Road HS2 Stockport To Hope Valley & Sheeld To Chester & North Wales Manchester Airport To Stoke, Crewe & London To Crewe & London To Crewe & London To Crewe Pinchpoint in Manchester Our picture shows platform 14 at Manchester Piccadilly as the sun sets on a cold, January day. Platform 14 is one of only two through platforms at Piccadilly and is part of the Castlefield Corridor (shown in the map above). About 40,000 passengers use the two platforms each day and there is now a team of 12 staff to manage the crowds on just those two platforms. But the trains are congested too. The key to unlocking congestion in Manchester and throughout the North of England is the Castlefield Corridor. See pages 2, 3 and 5 PINCHPOINT RAILFUTURE CAMPAIGNER Railwatch contents Northern Hub is an unfinished job 2 Chris Page OF THE YEAR 2020 Parts of the Northern Hub rail 3 Unfinished Northern Hub project have been built, but MANCHESTER we are still waiting for several 4 East Anglia, East Midlands PAGE one picture Further to the inaugural We will require a infrastructure interventions, award at the AGM written statement of 5 Manchester’s way forward dependent on Government Rail passengers wait for their in Cardiff 2019 and no more than 500 decisions, to complete the trains on platforms 13 and 14 in recognition of words identifying task.
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