IN several weeks we are promised our rail services will be back to normal once engineering works for electrification are complete.
This means a return of the clapped out over crowded diesel trains we had before. It is noticeable that although we have had many weeks of weekend closures, not a single gantry for the overhead lines have been erected. Why not?
It was obvious that during the closures this was the time to do it. But no. So there will be more delays and closures whilst this is done. With the delay in the electrification of the Preston/Blackpool line and the withdrawal of the most up to date electric trains from the Manchester network with the necessary changes to the time tables as they are replaced by slower older trains, the chances of any electric trains running through Bolton in the foreseeable future is very remote.
It would have been a lot better to save the expense and provide us with longer, higher capacity modern diesel units. I would hope our new conservative MP has the ear to the right people in central government to get things sorted out soon because no one else appears to care less.
M G Langdon
Priory Place,
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