The travel alert comes as many routes will be impacted
The travel alert comes as many routes will be impacted
Northern Rail has issued a warning to customers travelling over the Easter period. The rail service has told people to “check before they travel” as there will be disruption.
The travel alert comes as Northern will be conducting engineering work. This means no Northern trains will be operating to or from Liverpool Lime Street station on Sunday, April 20.
The Manchester Oxford Road to Liverpool Lime Street trains will instead run as a reduced service between Manchester Oxford Road and Hunts Cross only. Between Hunts Cross and Liverpool Lime Street, a replacement bus will be running.
The route from Manchester Piccadilly to Liverpool Lime Street via Earlestown will see trains run between Manchester Piccadilly and Huyton only. A replacement bus service will run between Huyton and Liverpool Lime Street.
The Blackpool North service from Liverpool Lime Street will run between Blackpool North, Preston and Huyton only. A replacement bus service will run between Huyton and Liverpool Lime Street.
Customers are being urged to check before they travel. You can check journey times online via the Northern website and app. The train operator runs nearly 2,500 services a day to over 500 stations across the North of England.
It isn’t only train users that will face disruption this Easter. As millions of people make the most of the long weekend, RAC has also shared a warning about traffic.
The RAC said traffic would be “equally severe” on Thursday, Good Friday and Saturday, with an estimated 19m leisure trips by car planned across the UK between Thursday and Easter Monday.
Alice Simpson, RAC’s breakdown spokesperson, told drivers to expect “extremely high levels of traffic from Thursday onwards”. She added: “Although journey numbers are still very high, we’re anticipating more day trips and weekend breaks than people heading off on one and two-week stints.”
Aviation analytics company Cirium said 11,282 flights were scheduled to depart from UK airports between Good Friday and Easter Monday.
