Northern Rail

[Sprinterdriver]

RE: Northern Rail
It sounds like someone isn't up to speed with the Liverpool to Blackpool trains, the original idea was that the service would remain running through with DMU's. That changed when the number of 319's went up from 16 to 20, the plan as I understand from this years winter timetable is that the service will split at Preston until the wires to Blackpool are complete.

All that is stopping the Bank Quay service going over to 319's is the number of units. There are currently 10 diagrams and 12 units available. As the number of units goes up then it will go over, indeed a 13th unit arrived last week (319374) but that isn't available for traffic yet.

SD.