Northern (Arriva Rail North)

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RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)

(04/01/2018 10:31)St Helens Rider Wrote:  It seems to me that over the years, if any operator has had a stock shortage, it's always a case of let's take them from Northern. We've had the situation with the 158"s as recently mentioned as well as TPE borrowing Northern's 156's when Chiltern took their 170"s. It's not as if the franchise has loads of spare stock.

In the case of the 156s and TPE the excuse was Northern was getting additional 319s. However, the 319s, 350/4s and electrification were supposed to add additional capacity to the north of England, replacing a previous plan to order 120 new diesel vehicles for Northern and 40 new diesel vehicles for TPE. It should also be noted the new diesel vehicles would have had 23m carriages, while both the 319s and 350s have 20m carriages.