Northern Trains Ltd

[iMarkeh]

RE: Northern Trains Ltd

(24/09/2020 22:21)wirralbus Wrote:  Arriva can run buses better than some of the bigger bus groups , namely First .

Its just arriva was given a pig in a poke with Northern , nothing they touched worked , Northern Eelectrification late , new trains late , Guards Dispute (Government inspired ).

If i was Arriva i wouldnt come back whilst Andy Burnham is Mayor of Greater Manchester , he was the biggest instigator of them losing the Franchise.

Point 1, debatable

Point 2, Arriva wasn't given a good set of cards. I'd argue most of their problems were due to the government (Mainly DFT and Network Rail) and that then made their own projects late because too much other stuff was going on and it all kind of got messed up together.

I think personally I would dump Northern all on Andy Burnham and see how he runs it because as you say he was a big instigator against Arriva Northern. I'd love to see how he could run it better since the only thing he ever did was slate Arriva and now it's gov ran, there is no comments despite it being worse ran than before. He is quite simply against private companies running public transport and that is the long and short of it.