In reply to GoneFishing111:
I am in a well placed position to comment about the rail problems.
Northern have now completed 90% of the driver training needed for their new trains and another timetable tweak comes into being on monday where most Preston/Manchester services are now a 6 carriage train (used to be 2 carriage)
The electrification infrastructure has been up and running for a while now, but it was 2 years late in coming. The new trains are still kind of bedding in and fault patterns are coming to light and being rectified by the builders (CAF)
It is no secret that Arriva have lost the northern franchise and the DoT take over it on March 1st. Kind of disappointing really as they’ll no doubt claim to have sorted all the problems out but really it was Arriva and a genuine case of ‘it all came good in the end, like we said it would’
Id give it a trial for a month and see how you go. The worst is most definitely over.
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