Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discountsGet Simon Calder’s Travel emailPassengers have had their New Year’s Eve[1] plans thrown into disarray after hundreds of trains were cancelled across the country [2]…
Merseyrail say that services to Chester, Ellesmere Port, New Brighton and West Kirby are running through this station are returning to normal but some services may still be cancelled or delayed.
Train services to West Kirby and New Brighton will be ter…
Six days after a horrific motorbike crash, Kyle Vynne opened his eyes in a hospital ward with no idea how he got there. The 28-year-old had just woken up from a coma after being involved in an accident on the motorway six days beforehand.
“I don’t reme…
Met Office forecasters have issued a yellow weather warning for strong winds across Cheshire lasting until tomorrow morning. The Environment Agency is also warning of a flood alert in place around the River Dee catchment in Chester.
The yellow warning …
National Rail Enquiries said that services from Shrewsbury to Crewe, via Nantwich, are affected by engineering work, closing all lines.
A spokesman said: “Trains that usually run between Shrewsbury and Crewe via Nantwich will be diverted to run via Che…
Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discountsGet Simon Calder’s Travel emailMillions of travellers are on the roads, railways and planes on Christmas Eve in the final travel surge before 25 December.Rail passe…
Weather warnings for wind and rain have been issued for Christmas Eve. Warnings for wind cover eastern edges of the county, and come at the same time as warnings for rain in North Wales.
The Met Office warns of, “Strong, very gusty winds” that may “cau…
A parish council boss has likened a main road through her village to the surface of the moon due to the sheer number of potholes. Cllr Janet Palmer, the chair of Wrenbury-cum-Frith Parish Council, says the situation is so bad that traffic has to crawl …
The scrapping of HS2 has resulted in job losses and will stop local road improvement schemes going ahead in Cheshire East and hit volunteer groups and charities in the pocket, councillors said.
The impact on the council’s finances have been well docume…
The UK Government’s transport secretary Mark Harper recently announced a number of connectivity improvements in response to a union connectivity review carried out and published by Lord Peter Hendy.
As part of the UK-wide improvements, funding will be …
Work began to repair the station earlier this year – more than 20 months after a wall and part of the roof collapsed[1] onto a platform and the track on May 18, 2021.
An investigation into the incident, being carried out by the Office of Road and Rail …
The M6 is closed northbound this morning after a crash between two HGVs and two cars at the Thelwall Viaduct. Both sides of the motorway were closed while the air ambulance landed before rushing a casualty, whom police said had suffered serious chest i…
Work began to repair the station earlier this year – more than 20 months after a wall and part of the roof collapsed[1] onto a platform and the track on May 18, 2021.
An investigation into the incident, being carried out by the Office of Road and Rail …
Rail passengers in the Liverpool City Region[1] will be able to blow away the Christmas[2] cobwebs as Merseyrail[3] has announced that train services will be running on Boxing Day.
Trains will be running every day over the festive period, with the exce…