Penistone line Longwood and Milnsbridge Golcar Slaithwaite Marsden Standedge Tunnel: three parallel tunnels (two single-line and one double) in length Diggle Diggle Junction with line to Stalybridge via Friezland Saddleworth Moorgate (only served by Delph Donkey services) Greenfield Mossley Stalybridge Stalybridge-Manchester Victoria and Manchester Exchange Ashton-under-Lyne Droylsden Clayton Bridge Park Miles Platting Manchester Victoria Manchester Exchange: opened by the LNWR and acted as the terminus for a vast majority of services until its closure in 1969, particularly all-stopping trains. Stalybridge-Manchester Piccadilly shared with the former Woodhead Line and present-day Glossop and Hope Valley lines to Manchester Piccadilly Manchester Piccadilly Services TransPennine Express (TPE) operate the majority of the passenger services over the line, as it is the core line linking the North West with Yorkshire and the North East. Since privatisation in the 1990s, local services on the route have been operated by the Northern franchise (Arriva Trains Northern, Northern Rail, Arriva Rail North and, since 2020, Northern Trains). The first incarnation, Arriva Trains Northern, also operated the express services between Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, York, Middlesbrough and Newcastle before the Strategic Rail Authority spun the express train services off into a separate franchise operated by First TransPennine Express and, since 2016, by TransPennine Express. At the May 2018 timetable change, the Northern services calling at the smaller stations on the section between Greater Manchester and Huddersfield were transferred to TPE; they were combined into an hourly to service. This also saw many of the TPE services diverted away from the to Manchester Piccadilly corridor, so that through trains could use the newly opened Ordsall Chord. However, Northern still operate local services from Huddersfield to Sheffield, Leeds (via ) and Wakefield. Due to the change of line on the through Manchester services, the Liverpool trains no longer run on the line through , but travel via instead. Six trains per hour provided by TPE in both directions run on the Huddersfield line between in Greater Manchester and Leeds: to (via ) Liverpool Lime Street to (via Manchester Victoria) to Newcastle (via Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria) Manchester Airport to (via Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria) Manchester Piccadilly to Manchester Piccadilly to Ale trail An ale trail has become popular along the route owing to a large number of easily accessed and nationally acclaimed pubs along the route; this includes pubs on the station platforms at Dewsbury, Huddersfield and Stalybridge. The following