Northern (Arriva Rail North)

[knutstransport]

RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)
If you think the DfT figures for bus subsides are nonsense than you do the same with the DfT subsides for rail subsides. Neither give the full picture and can be very misleading if quoted without lots of different caveats.

It's also not a question of whether PTE subsides for rail services will be scrapped, it's a case of they will be completely phased out. Very soon the total TfGM subsidy for all rail routes will be 0p. TfGM also hope to take control of stations in Greater Manchester - if they succeed in that train operators will even be paying them to use their stations!