{"id":140,"date":"2007-05-19T10:34:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T10:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=140"},"modified":"2007-05-21T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T14:35:10","slug":"etruria-and-longport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Etruria and Longport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I've just noticed there is a comment on this post<\/a> I made last year about Etruria station. I never did receive a reply to my letter. I suppose my MP didn't think it was worth bothering with as there is nothing that can be done now.<\/div>\n
This still doesn't remove the fact that local public transport in this area is poor (to be polite). As mentioned in a previous post, Longport station is supposed to be having money spent on it to improve its condition. As far as I can tell after visiting it on two separate days last week that amounted to 2 new waiting shelters. One of which had some of the local Chavs in it sipping on their cheap lager! Tell them that people stand on stations for a hobby and they'd take the p**s! It's a great place to hang tho innit?<\/div>\n
I digress! I still get the impression that no one in the Government or the Train Operating Companies really care about North Staffordshire. Longport still has a train to Stoke \/ Derby and Crewe every hour and the 2 trains to Manchester within half an hour of each other in the mornings and one at night from Manchester, but that's it. Hardly intensive is it? The Stoke – Stafford local service is still a bus and will be until 2009 (I think). There is a proposal for a Crewe – London service via North Staffs in 2009, which will stop at Alsager, Kidsgrove & Stone as well as Stoke, but although that will be quite useful, we still need a service for the local stations to Manchester. Well, to be honest we need a decent local service full stop!<\/div>\n
Eighteen months ago I wrote to Central Trains about their awful service in this area and they replied that it wasn't their fault, it was the DfT's. This is despite the fact that they operated the services and asked for Etruria to be closed!<\/div>\n
As an indicator of the Central Trains' attitude to this area, in a reply I got, I was told of the wonderful new Desiro service from Birmingham to Liverpool. Very good I replied, but as it doesn't come anywhere near North Staffordshire (well it does, but straight through as there are no stations between Stafford and Crewe!), what use was it to me? They didn't reply to that!<\/div>\n
Central Trains are to lose their franchise in the next 6 – 12 months! <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I've just noticed there is a comment on this post I made last year about Etruria station. I never did receive a reply to my letter. I suppose my MP didn't think it was worth bothering with as there is nothing that can be done now. This still doesn't remove the fact that local … <\/p>\n

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