Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
Graham, Tom and Ian
Your Lib Dem team for Cheadle West & Gatley Learn more
What were the local issues four decades ago?
Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
What were the local issues four decades ago?
Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
Most crowded trains in the UK pass through Gatley
by Lib Dem team on 9 September, 2015
The BBC is reporting that three of the top ten most crowded train services in England and Wales pass through Manchester, including the top two! The figures for 2014 have been released by the Department for Transport.
The Manchester trains, which all start or terminate at Manchester Airport,
Top 10 most crowded trains 2014
- 04:22 Glasgow Central to Manchester Airport
- 16:00 Manchester Airport to Edinburgh
- 06:31 Reading to London Paddington
- 07:57 London Heathrow to London Paddington
- 07:02 Reading to London Paddington
- 06:35 Caterham to Victoria Central
- 07:24 Brighton to Bedford
- 18:00 Manchester Airport to Edinburgh
- 07:32 Woking to London Waterloo
- 07:02 Woking to London Waterloo
Source: Department for Transport
This is yet more evidence of the desperate need for the North to have fair investment in transport infrastructure. We get a fraction of London’s investment so it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that the worst train overcrowding in the country is not in London and the South East but in Manchester.
The Government say they are serious about building a Northern Powerhouse, about linking up our northern cities to boost our economy and create jobs. We need £17 billion – less than the price of Crossrail – to boost roads, rail, trams, buses, cycling and walking for the whole of the north of England. It’s time for the Government to put their money where their mouth is.
8 Comments
We also have the worse road system, much worse than London. Once something goes wrong on any of the motorways the whole of Stockport and Manchester goes into grid lock. More needs to be done for this area and the PM needs to be made aware of this.
One issue is that London has much better public transport than us, so everyone uses it. If as many people in London used their cars as do in Stockport then London would be permanently gridlocked.
Agreed. If trains could be trusted, and were actually cheaper than car ownership, they’d be used more.
As it is, there is no guarantee that a train will be there when it should be (quite the opposite in my experience) and they are a rip-off.
I wonder what the definition of crowding is.
How many carriages do these trains have…far fewer than say Manchester to London.
The answer is to increase the length of the trains! Years ago services to Glasgow and Edinburgh would be some 9 or 10 coaches, some with diners and sleepers – not the short local trains being used today.
I feel the Govt. should scrap HS2 and use the money to enhance and develop our existing rail system, including re-opening some of the lines closed in the late 1960s.
There’s a lot to be said on this issue – and what’s the latest on the re-opening of Cheadle (LNW) station?
I do travel Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Waverly and return, 3 hours 20 minutes
If this train was to stop, stations like Gatley, it will takes ages before, i would get to Edinburgh
Afzal Chaudhri
Agreed we need more investment and the best way to do this is to stop rail service operators from pocketing all of the fares and renationalise the railways so our fares are actually being spent on improving things rather than just our taxes.
Or if at least make the railways actually privatised so there is some competition. Selling rail franchise contracts isn’t competition for the consumer! It is merely leasing out a monopoly.
I totally agree the amount of money being spent on transport infrastructure in London and the SE, is disproportional. The Treasuries own figures show this. Look at the difference in transport spending per head of population by region NW £337 , London £774. (see Source HM Treasury via BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26407806 )
As a case in point, look at the railways, the re-building of Kings Cross just completed( £0.5B), Crossrail in progress (£15B), Thameslink in progress (£6B), Reading just finished (£0.8B) and a recent £1B order for 65 trains for Crossrail. Total £23.3B . Compare this to £600M on the Northern Hub project and no new trains so far as part of this project.
The proposed 3rd runway at Heathrow has at an estimated cost of £18.6bn. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19570653 )
We are all citizen’s of one country, so spending should be more even.