New Train Services To/From Stafford.

Mudgie

Mudgie

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The Hawk said:
In a major revamp of West Coast mainline and local services, it seems Stafford will be the major winner. According to the planned changes, there will be major improvements to services to/from Stafford with effect from the December 2022 timetable change.

There will be new hourly services:
1. to/from Scotland; and
2. to/from North Wales.

One London-Manchester service per hour will also be stopping at Stafford as well. However, this effectively replaces the hourly Avanti Liverpool-London Euston service, which will no longer stop at Stafford.

The result of the above changes will also see more services to/from London Euston as well.

The changes will also see the hourly Crewe-Stoke-Stafford-Wolverhampton-Birmingham service diverted between Wolverhampton and Birmingham, to call at Tame Bridge Parkway and, with effect from December 2023, it will also call at the new stations being built at Willenhall and Darlaston.

The above is based on announcements by Avanti and West Midlands Trains (London Northwestern Railway & West Midlands Railway). Cross Country Trains have not finalised their plans yet, so there may be additional changes on their routes.
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It looks like five through trains a day each to Holyhead, Glasgow and Edinburgh and two to Blackpool and back so that's 34 trains daily again that Stafford lost soon after Branson got the franchise a quarter of a century ago.
 
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DoggedWalker

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The service that stops at Tame Bridge is totally pointless with the timetable as it is. If you board it at Birmingham you’ll arrive later than at least one, possibly two, services that depart New Street subsequent to it. It’s also ill thought out in terms of West Midlands commuters. Everyone wanting to travel to Wolverhampton ignored the stopping service and crowds onto the quicker Cross Country service.

Would be interesting to know what the demand from Tame Bridge actually is.
 
kyoto49

kyoto49

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DoggedWalker said:
The service that stops at Tame Bridge is totally pointless with the timetable as it is. If you board it at Birmingham you’ll arrive later than at least one, possibly two, services that depart New Street subsequent to it. It’s also ill thought out in terms of West Midlands commuters. Everyone wanting to travel to Wolverhampton ignored the stopping service and crowds onto the quicker Cross Country service.

Would be interesting to know what the demand from Tame Bridge actually is.
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You are making the mistake of thinking anything is decided with passengers in mind :(
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
Well you wanna catch me waking up and getting out of bed to catch either if those on any Saturday night.......
 
Mudgie

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Does anyone on here know if Stafford railway station's car park is likely to be full by 10am on a Tuesday ?
 
Thehooperman

Thehooperman

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Mudgie said:
Does anyone on here know if Stafford railway station's car park is likely to be full by 10am on a Tuesday ?
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I don't think it gets that busy these days.

The open air one never seems to be full on most of the afternoons when I've caught the train recently so I assume it won't be full in the mornings.
 
The Hawk

The Hawk

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Mudgie said:
Does anyone on here know if Stafford railway station's car park is likely to be full by 10am on a Tuesday ?
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Thehooperman said:
I don't think it gets that busy these days.

The open air one never seems to be full on most of the afternoons when I've caught the train recently so I assume it won't be full in the mornings.
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As an alternative you can book a space on Tesco's car park for £6 to £8 for the day through the Horizon parking app.
 
The Hawk

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EasMid said:
£4.70 for 24 hours weekday when I last booked Tesco car park through Yourparkingspace a couple of months ago.
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It seems to vary in price quite a bit. Horizon and YourParkingSpace seem to be linked companies, if you book a space through one app, it also appears on the other.
 
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gilesjuk

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Theresa Green said:
Last train from Birmingham to Stafford on a Saturday night 22.33
Last train from Manchester to Stafford on a Saturday night 21.30

Makes concert going a sober affair
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That'll be most likely down to pay rules etc.. The workers will expect higher pay for doing saturday night. I lived near St Albans for a while and that had a 24 hour service to and from London, except Saturday night.
 
The Hawk

The Hawk

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Theresa Green said:
Last train from Birmingham to Stafford on a Saturday night 22.33
Last train from Manchester to Stafford on a Saturday night 21.30

Makes concert going a sober affair
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gilesjuk said:
That'll be most likely down to pay rules etc.. The workers will expect higher pay for doing saturday night. I lived near St Albans for a while and that had a 24 hour service to and from London, except Saturday night.
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I was told that the earlier finish on Saturday evenings was down to the track being made available for Network Rail to carry out any required 'weekend' engineering work.

Many other parts of the network, however, do not seem to be affected by this early Saturday night shutdown.
 
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