Northern Rail

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RE: Northern Rail

(27/03/2016 15:31)motormayhem1 Wrote:  Thats why the government should name the franchise which would stay with that franchise with its own franchise livery then the operating company just stick there name under it so at least the livery and name stay the same just the operators name changes just like tfgm have done with the hybrid buses round greater manchester

Those buses have been purchased specifically for Manchester as the result of a multi-million pound government green bus grant, so they have to remain in Manchester, unlike most buses which operators can move to other areas.

Arriva will take on 98 new trains, 17 cascaded trains from GWR, 3 from LM, 29 from Scotrail and 12 from Thameslink while they will return 25 electric trains to the leasing companies which will be used by other operators, as well as 119 diesel trains to the leasing companies - most of those are Pacers but some of those could still be used by other operators before being scrapped. That's a lot of train paint required even if the units transferring from Northern weren't being touched.