Northern Rail

[wirralbus]

RE: Northern Rail
I can see the logical reasoning for the 323's going to London Midland and the 319's to Northern Franchise successor .

It puts a large batch of the 319's under the Northern Franchise owners ownership then , allowing economies of scale when getting parts for them , some timetables will have to be recast for the acceleration of the 319's over the 323's. I can not see them being shortened down unless there is some platform length problems east of Manchester.