In principles agreed with the Department for Transport and aligned with other UK Train Operating Companies from Tuesday 24 March Northern is launching an emergency temporary timetable. This represents significant change from the normal daily timetable, with a specific focus to deliver an effective public transport service for key workers. Reducing the number of trains in service also creates opportunities for additional cleaning activities on trains and in depots, and allows more targeted cleaning at stations.
Information is now available to be viewed on and via PDF copies which are located here:
https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/key-worker-timetables
The indicative service pattern by corridor is shown in the table below:
| Service | Frequency |
| West and Central | |
| Barrow – Manchester Airport | Two Hourly |
| Windermere – Manchester Airport | Two Hourly |
| Carlisle – Workington | Hourly |
| Barrow – Whitehaven | 2 hourly |
| Blackpool – Hazel Grove | Hourly |
| Preston – Victoria | Hourly |
| Liverpool – Oxford Road via Warrington | Half Hourly |
| Blackpool South – Colne | Two Hourly |
| Liverpool – Crewe via Newton-le-Willows & Manchester Airport | Hourly |
| Southport – Stalybridge via Bolton | Hourly |
| Stoke – Piccadilly | Hourly |
| Clitheroe – Rochdale | Hourly |
| Wigan – Leeds via Atherton and Dewsbury | Hourly |
| Victoria – Leeds via Bradford | Hourly |
| Piccadilly – Chester via Altrincham | Two Hourly |
| Piccadilly – Buxton | Hourly |
| Piccadilly – Sheffield via New Mills | Hourly |
| Piccadilly – Hadfield | Hourly |
| Piccadilly – Rose Hill | Hourly |
| Liverpool – Wigan | Hourly |
| Victoria – Blackburn via Todmorden | Three Hourly |
| Preston – Leeds | Two Hourly |
| Piccadilly – Stockport – Crewe | Hourly |
| Preston – Ormskirk | Limited Bus Replacement |
| Wigan – Kirkby | Limited Bus Replacement |
| Lancaster – Morecambe | Limited Bus Replacement |
| Chester/Ellesmere Port – Warrington BQ – Earlestown | No service – Use alternative TfW service |
| East | |
| Leeds Skipton | Hourly |
| Leeds-Ilkley | Hourly |
| Leeds-Bradford FS | Half Hourly |
| Bradford FS-Ilkley | Half Hourly |
| Bradford FS-Skipton | Half Hourly |
| Leeds-Carlisle | Two Hourly |
| Leeds-Harrogate-York | Hourly |
| Huddersfield via Halifax & Brighouse | Hourly |
| Leeds-Doncaster | Hourly |
| Leeds-Sheffield via Moorthorpe | Hourly |
| Sheffield – Lincoln | Two Hourly |
| Leeds-Sheffield via Barnsley | Hourly |
| Leeds-Knottingley – Goole via Glasshoughton | Hourly |
| Leeds-Knottingley via Wakefield | Hourly |
| Leeds – Selby | Hourly |
| Leeds-York via Garforth | Hourly |
| York – Hull | Hourly |
| Sheffield – Doncaster | Hourly |
| Sheffield – Huddersfield | Two every three hours |
| Sheffield – Hull – Scarborough | Two Hourly |
| Scunthorpe – Doncaster | Two every three hours |
| Barton-on-Humber Cleethorpes | No service |
| North East | |
| Morpeth – Carlisle | Peak hourly, then two hourly |
| Whitby – Middlesbrough | Limited service |
| Middlesbrough / Newcastle | Peak hourly, then two hourly |
| Bishop Auckland – Saltburn | 1 hourly |
| Chathill – Morpeth | No service |
The timetable will be in place until further notice and is the result of a tremendous amount of work by our timetable planning team who have worked incredibly hard to put this together over the weekend and early part of this week.
