The Hawk
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The one thing we won't be getting back are overnight services.
Up until the 1980s we had a near 24 hour service, but then things quickly declined and by the end of the 1990s almost all of Stafford's late evening / overnight services had disappeared.
I think the last two or three to go were:
1. an overnight service from Holyhead (which I last used to come back from a gig in Rhyl in 2006);
2. a service that left Manchester Piccadilly at around 01:25 (which I used regularly to come back from gigs in Manchester); and
3. a service that left Birmingham just after 02:00.
I think these services survived into the 21st century (just in the case of the Manchester and Birmingham services, with the Holyhead service lasting a bit longer).
Up until the 1980s we had a near 24 hour service, but then things quickly declined and by the end of the 1990s almost all of Stafford's late evening / overnight services had disappeared.
I think the last two or three to go were:
1. an overnight service from Holyhead (which I last used to come back from a gig in Rhyl in 2006);
2. a service that left Manchester Piccadilly at around 01:25 (which I used regularly to come back from gigs in Manchester); and
3. a service that left Birmingham just after 02:00.
I think these services survived into the 21st century (just in the case of the Manchester and Birmingham services, with the Holyhead service lasting a bit longer).