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Our teams across the network are on hand to help with all your travel requirements should you need some assistance. Use our passenger assist and find out about improvements we're making to ensure it's a better way to go, for everyone at northernrailway.co.uk/for-all
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And for Yorkshire & Humberside, the stations are: ๐Ÿš‰Bingley ๐Ÿš‰Mirfield ๐Ÿš‰Scarborough ๐Ÿš‰Sowerby Bridge We love Scarborough, but we love our stations more ๐Ÿ˜‰. So vote for Bingley, Mirfield or Sowerby Bridge as your 'best loved' station now โฌ‡๏ธ #WorldCupofStations
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๐Ÿ†#WorldCupofStations 2023 Yorkshire group๐Ÿ† Who are you voting for? ๐Ÿš‰Bingley ๐Ÿš‰Mirfield ๐Ÿš‰Scarborough ๐Ÿš‰Sowerby Bridge The vote for the Yorkshire group is open until midnight! Be sure to retweet and share with your friends and colleagues.
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It's the first day of our regional entries for the #WorldCupofStations ๐Ÿ† For the North East, we have 4 stations shortlisted: ๐Ÿš‰Manors ๐Ÿš‰MetroCentre ๐Ÿš‰Haltwhistle ๐Ÿš‰Shildon Vote for your 'best loved' North East station now โฌ‡๏ธ
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๐Ÿ†#WorldCupofStations 2023 North East group๐Ÿ† Who are you voting for? ๐Ÿš‰Manors ๐Ÿš‰MetroCentre ๐Ÿš‰Haltwhistle ๐Ÿš‰Shildon The vote for the North East group is open until midnight! Be sure to retweet and share with your friends and colleagues.
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Think that you can vote early and vote often? ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘€ We see you! Duplicate votes in the #WorldCupofStations will not be counted. ๐Ÿ“ˆ We'll be publishing the state of play for each group at 3pm. Have you voted yet?
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#WorldCupofStations is back! And this year the theme is best loved stations, the ones that make you smile, the ones at the heart of the community. We've not just one station in the line-up, not even just 3. This year we have...drum roll please ๐Ÿฅ... 9 stations shortlisted! 1/2
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๐Ÿ† #WorldCupofStations 2023๐Ÿ† ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธVoting will begin here on our Twitter feed and on our website, raildeliverygroup.com/wcos imminently. ๐Ÿš… Voting for each stage will be open until midnight, with the winners of each group announced the following morning...
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Today is the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attack at Manchester Arena in which 22 people were killed. Our thoughts are with those affected by the terrible events of 22 May 2017. A minute's silence will be held at Manchester Victoria at 12pm.
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๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Customers travelling between Leeds and York are advised to travel via Harrogate. For customers wanting intermediate stations between Leeds and York, services from Leeds are available as far as Micklefield. Northern ticket holders have acceptance on: 1/2
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Travelling this weekend? ๐Ÿงณ ๐Ÿ“ฒ If so, please check as our engineers are completing upgrade work in #Stalybridge ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ This will take place both today and tomorrow ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ #OnTrackToBetter #TRU
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Our @theTRUpgrade colleagues have now installed electric wires between #Manchester and #Stalybridge โšก๏ธ This weekend, improvement work is being completed at Stalybridge as we are working towards cleaner, greener trains โœ… Please check before you travel: tpexpress.co.uk/travel-updates
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Good Morning Twitter, EK logging in today. If you need assistance with your journey please get in touch! ๐Ÿ˜€
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A brighter Batley station ๐ŸŽจ๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿ–๏ธ This week, we had the pleasure of unveiling artwork created by local schools children at #Batley station. This was completed as part of a colourful railway competition, orgnaised by our social values team ๐ŸŒ We want to thank all schoolsโ€ฆย Show more
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It's competition time! ๐ŸŽ‰ Fancy a free family day out* on us? ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘ง Have a go at our spot the difference game below to be in with a chance of winning! Have a go! โžก๏ธ northernrailway.co.uk/halfterm *T&Cs apply. Winners to be contacted via email. See website for full details.
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Morning Twitter, and happy Friday! ๐Ÿ™Œ JD signing in today. Do get in touch if we can help with your travels. I'm late to the game, but any guesses which series I finished yesterday? Clue is in the pic... ๐Ÿ“ท
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Great read from our here ๐Ÿ‘‡
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For anyone whose interested here is a sequence of pictures showing what happens at Rainford Junction when a @northernassist service terminates. As usual the signaller will give the driver the token to enter the single line section
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๐ŸšA coach operated by S Line will depart from Clitheroe at 14.25 calling stations to Blackburn. A coach operated by S Line will depart from Clitheroe at 15:23 calling stations to Blackburn. Journey times will be extended by 40 minutes. #NorthernUpdates
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