Northern Trains Ltd

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RE: Northern Trains Ltd

(17/05/2025 21:52)507022 Wrote:  Why are some 3310xx going to Neville Hiil now?
There were like for like swaps with 3311xx some time ago.
Is it because Northern has more than enough at Allerton now with the WM 323s arriving, I wonder?

Posts on another forum suggest 6 car workings are being introduced in Leeds in the next couple of months. Sounds like some of the services that were 4 car 333s until recently will be 6 car 331s, allowing the 333s to be used on other services like the Doncaster electric services. The 4 car 333s have a lot more seats than than the 4 car 331s due to rare combination of wider carriages allowing 3+2 seating, as well as the carriages being full length. A feature the 323s also have. However, with Sprinters it's narrow and long e.g. 155s, 156s, 158s or short and fat (150s).

Northern using 323s on diverted Blackpool to Manchester Airport during the recent engineering works may not have helped with the number of services cancelled due to staff shortages. I don't think they had sufficient Wigan crews who both signed the relevant part of the route and the traction type, and I think some services had 3 crew changes en route.