I can’t travel on my original route – what options do I have?published at 16:29 BST
National Rail has detailed specific advice for customers wanting to travel on each line affected by this afternoon’s outage.
Avanti West Coast is not serving Macclesfield. Tickets can be used on other lines including CrossCountry between Birmingham New Street and Stoke-on-Trent and Transport for Wales services between Manchester Piccadilly and Crewe.
East Midlands Railway has asked people not to travel between Sheffield and Liverpool Lime Street.
The service has organised some bus travel between Sheffield, Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly. Tickets can also be used on Avanti West Coast services between Liverpool and London Euston and Greater Anglia services between Norwich and London Liverpool Street.
London Northwestern Railway is organising rail replacement services between Hartford and Liverpool Lime Street.
Northern customers have been asked not to travel. It advises tickets can be used on “reasonable routes” via Transport for Greater Manchester bus services and Metrolink services.
TransPennine Express has asked customers not to travel – tickets can be used on Bee Network buses, LNER services between Doncaster, Leeds, York, Newcastle and Edinburgh and some other routes.
Transport for Wales has organised buses between Warrington Bank Quay and Manchester Piccadilly while tickets can be used on some other train services including Merseyrail between Liverpool and Chester.
The full advice is available on National Rail., external
