Northern and Avanti West Coast release travel advice calendar for trains over Christmas and New Year
Northern and Avanti West Coast have released calendars to provide customers with a handy reference guide for service levels over the festive period.
The calendar, which covers from Monday, December 22, until Saturday, January 4, highlights the fact that services will end earlier than usual on Christmas Eve.
There are no trains running on Christmas Day or Boxing Day.
Normal Wednesday timetables but last trains will be earlier than usual. There are some changes to train services between Manchester and Leeds where Network Rail are carrying out TransPennine Route Upgrade improvement works between Huddersfield/ Brighouse and Dewsbury. There are also changes to the following lines early in the morning and later in the night. Please check before you travel.
- Trains between Leeds and Wigan Wallgate via Dewsbury will be diverted to run via Bradford Interchange and Halifax. We will provide replacement buses instead of trains between Halifax and Dewsbury calling at Brighouse and Mirfield.
- Trains between Leeds and Bradford Interchange via Dewsbury will start from and terminate at Brighouse and run every two hours. TransPennine Express will provide replacement buses instead of trains between Dewsbury and Huddersfield.
- We will provide replacement buses instead of trains between Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly after 00:30 and before 05:00.
- We will provide a replacement bus between Blackpool South and Preston before 05:00.
- We will provide a replacement bus instead of a train between Warrington Central and Liverpool at 00:20.
Matt Rice, Chief Operating Officer at Northern, said: “We hope this travel advice calendar will be useful for everybody using our trains over Christmas and New Year.
“Whilst fewer people are travelling, Network Rail will be carrying out a range of improvement works across the network, so I'd encourage customers to 'check before you travel' over the festive period to see if your journey is affected.”
Wednesday, December 24, trains will finish earlier than normal.
There will be no services on Christmas Day or Boxing Day.
Wednesday, December 31, trains will finish earlier than normal.
On Thursday, January 1 and Friday 2, buses will replace trains between Wigan North Western and Preston.
Due to engineering work closing lines at Preston, buses will replace trains between Wigan North Western and Preston.
A limited train service will run non-stop between Wigan North Western and Carlisle via a diversionary route (Settle - Carlisle line).
As times can be subject to change, you can always visit the websites for more information on the day you are travelling.