Northern encourages customers to check before they travel ahead of a busy bank holiday weekend
Train operator Northern is encouraging customers to get out and enjoy events over the bank holiday by train.
Most Northern train services across the North of England will be running as usual over the late May bank holiday. With a host of events taking place over the weekend, trains are expected to be particularly busy in a number of areas, so the operator is asking customers to check before they travel.
Liverpool's Sefton Park will play host to Radio 1's Big Weekend, with the Warrington Neighbourhood Festival also taking place a little further down the road. Liverpool will also host the Liverpool FC Premier League parade on Monday 26 May.
In the North East, the Northumberland County Show takes place on Saturday 24th, with the showground easily accessible by trains on the Tyne Valley line from Stocksfield station.
Engineering improvement works will affect a small number of routes, as follows:
- Between Leeds, Manchester Victoria and Chester (24 to 26 May) - trains will start and finish at Manchester Victoria, with buses replacing trains between Chester and Newton-le-Willows for train connections to Manchester
- Between Leeds, Manchester Victoria and Wigan via Dewsbury (26 to 30 May) - trains will be diverted, running instead via Bradford Interchange and Halifax
Whilst trains on most routes will be running as normal over the weekend, services may start later or finish earlier, so the operator is advising customers to leave plenty of time to travel and check train times before heading to the station.
Full details of the changes to services over the late May bank holiday can be found on Northern's website.
Northern is the second largest train operator in the UK, with 2,650 services a day to more than 500 stations across the North of England.