You're kidding me? There's now a train to Hazel Grove at 12.23!!
Decades back, used to go into town to see a film with my girlfriend on a Friday or Saturday night. Weekend, you'll notice. When young people, and not so young, like to go out.
Used to drive me round the bend that either we cut the last ten minutes of the film (which I loathe doing), or we'd have to run like mad from, say, Deansgate, to catch the last train back to Hazel Grove. If I remember rightly, it was at about 10 pm. Good old British Rail.
Once, we cut it fine and the train had actually started moving. I hared up the platform and jumped on it, but my poor girlfriend was not quite as good a sprinter as me. I saw that she was going to be left high and dry (briefly thought, “Well, how serious is it between us anyway?”) and jumped off it again. Of course, the train's momentum sent me bowling over on the platform. Ripped my trouser leg and grazed my knee. But they actually stopped the whole train for us! I was a bit chuffed, honestly. Well worth it.
Incidentally, am I imagining this? Didn't the 192 used to be simply the 92? Brilliant banner by the 1894 group, by the way. Sooo City. Locals as opposed to tourists (i.e. over in Trafford…)