HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE PICCADILLY?

TONY MILES reflects on plans for the congested Castlefield corridor in Manchester

Castlefield corridor: East Midlands Trains unit No 158854 leads the 13.52 Liverpool Lime Street to Norwich service into Manchester Piccadilly’s platform 13 on 20 October 2018 on the congested two-track stretch. Philip Sherratt

Capacity problems in Manchester are well known. The Castlefield corridor, the two-track stretch through Piccadilly, Oxford Road and Deansgate stations, has always been a pinch point.

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