Northern Trains Ltd

[knutstransport]

RE: Northern Trains Ltd
Northern's normal approach to a unit failure on the Manchester Piccadilly routes seems to be to split a 4 car set and have another diagram short formed.

Looking at Chester arrivals and departures yesterday it looks like they decided to also not make an attempt to keep Chester to Victoria running when there was a problem at Hebden Bridge, which lasted a few hours.

Chester does seem to get a poor deal from both TfW Rail and Northern. The Chester-Runcorn-Liverpool service seems to be TfW's first route to drop, and they seem happy to have rammed single sets on North Wales routes, when they want to strengthen Cardiff services.