This simulation is designed for use in the 2012-present era. If a pre-2012 era is created, a new version of this simulation will be released.

04.56 - 00.30 weekdays: 410 trains. More detailed information is provided within the timetable file.

Welcome to 1987! Manchester’s railway network remains split north and south, though that will change with the opening of the Windsor Link in 1988. The Stockport-Stalybridge shuttle links the systems, supplemented by a number of cross-city services that now use the new (1986) Hazel Grove chord and the Heaton Norris-Ashton Moss route. As a result, the Ashburys lines have lost all but a couple of loco-hauled passenger services. Freight moves are down too as volumes decline and Trans-Pennine freight is steadily rerouted onto the Chat Moss and Calder Valley routes. Local services remain intensive on the southern lines, minimal on the Diggle route, though express services on the latter have doubled in frequency, making the manual signalboxes trickier to operate.