Under the new timetable, announced earlier this month along with the rest of the National Rail network, most Northern services will be unaffected but some may see slight re-timing.

In addition, a new daily, hourly passenger service will resume on the Newcastle-Ashington (Northumberland) line.

Northern operates nearly 2,500 services a day to more than 500 stations across the North of England.

Customers should use the ‘Check My Timetable‘ tool on the Northern website to see any changes that might affect their local station. Timetables will be available as PDFs soon, allowing you to view, download, or print your own copy. A summary of the changes follows:

In the North East

• A half-hourly service will connect Newcastle and Ashington Monday to Saturday (and hourly on Sundays from the autumn). Trains will call at Newsham and Seaton Delaval, with some also calling at Manors station.

In Yorkshire & the Humber and the East Midlands

• There will be additional stops and extra capacity on some services from Leeds to Skipton and stations in Cumbria.
• In the Calder Valley, more trains will stop at Sowerby Bridge, Mytholmroyd and Low Moor.
• There will also be extra capacity for services from Leeds to Harrogate and York because of an increase in Class 170 availability on peak services.
• There will be a reduction in capacity on services between Sheffield and Huddersfield whilst engineering work takes place.

In the North West

• Extra capacity on the Liverpool Lime Street – Manchester Airport services. (With receipt of the first additional class 323s from WMT, Northern is planning redeployment of units, allowing increased use of 4-car 331s.)
• Sunday services between Buxton and Manchester Piccadilly will make additional calls at Heaton Chapel and Levenshulme.
• A new Saturday service from Rochdale will link Blackburn, Bolton, Manchester and Salford with the Yorkshire Dales via Clitheroe, planned to operate twice a day.

Why not discover more about the intricacies of timetable planning and creation?

The vast majority of services are unaffected by the change, but there are a small number of services that have been re-timed.

Matt Rice, chief operating officer at Northern