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RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)

(29/05/2016 07:46)St Helens Rider Wrote:  As Blackpool - Preston will only be ready in 2019 (Preston - Manchester a little sooner), these will be for Manchester - Crewe/Hadfield/Stoke to replace 323's.

I see. I assume that some of the cascaded class 319/4 will have their first class facilities removed.

These trains will be for manchester to replace the class 323 which will go to London Midland. Then, when the brand new trains (class 331/1, i.e. 4-cars) will be in service in 2018/2019 for Manchester services, the class 319s will be on the Liverpool-Blackpool and Manchester Victoria-Blackpool services. Is this correct?