Trains will be diverted and cancelled, with replacement buses brought in for passengers, as a major track engineering project starts from Saturday for more than three weeks.
The work is just one part of the wider Transpennine Route Upgrade scheme, which will see faster and more frequent trains running between Manchester and York, via Huddersfield and Leeds. Engineers will work around the clock over 26 days from Saturday, March 11, to upgrade the railway line in Stalybridge, Tameside.
It's the largest phase of work delivered under the programme so far and includes remodelling track, installing more than two kilometres of new track and 23 new signals, upgrading 13 crossovers and fitting new overhead line equipment to improve journeys.
