Northern (Arriva Rail North)

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RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)

(06/10/2018 14:13)Metroline1511 Wrote:  I arrived back at Manchester Airport late in the evening on Monday. I caught the 23.46 from the Airport as far as East Didsbury on a train continuing to Blackpool North. Before it pulled in they promised it would be a 4-car train. I hoped it would be a 319, especially as it was non-stop from Manchester to Preston avoiding Bolton, but it was a double 156 in the end. For good measure, they were both in purple defunct Northern Rail livery.

It looks like for some reason that service is operated by the units which spend the day on the Liverpool-Warrington-Manchester Airport services which end up being sent to Blackpool sidings for the night, rather than Allerton.