Northern Rail

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Northern Rail

(01/07/2015 07:44)wirralbus Wrote:  It does show the flexibility of the layout at Wigan North Western these days , in previous times the service would have either had to wait for Network Rail or eventually get rerouted via Newton Le Willows (subject to driver route knowledge).

The main bottleneck for the service is when the West Coast goes down from 4 to 2 tracks at Euxton. If there is a delay to the service at Preston, you can basically double/treble the delay in the estimated arrival time at Wigan.