Northern (Arriva Rail North)

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RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)

(19/06/2019 08:35)Barney Wrote:  Unlike Merseyrail, Northern seems incapable of reacting to increased demand when special events occur on their network. Is it poor management or a lack of spare rolling stock?

Its a case unlike Merseyrail of not robbing peter to pay paul.

When Merseyrail need to increase the service on some lines , they have a pecking order of what to do , pull services of some of the lesser used services , ie Ellesmere Port , either replacing with a bus service or a rail shuttle , something like that could easily be done with Northern , but the problem is at Northern , you are dealing with at least 5 different PTA areas each with there own agenda , even though they come under the umbrella of Rail North.