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Mayors will only accept rail timetable changes if long-term upgrades are agreed

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Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Northern mayors have warned the government that they will only accept reduced train services through Greater Manchester if long-awaited rail infrastructure upgrades are delivered.

A new timetable has been proposed by the Department for Transport (DfT) with the aim of easing significant congestion in and around Manchester from December 2022.

Bottlenecks on the Castlefield Corridor have long caused disruption on the wider rail network, a problem made worse by the disastrous introduction of a new timetable in 2018. READ MORE : Government's big plans to overhaul rail in the North would see our train services REDUCED - it's been blasted as 'deeply

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