Northern Trains Ltd

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RE: Northern Trains Ltd

(17/07/2020 17:44)iMarkeh Wrote:  Interesting. Did they furlough drivers and therefore drivers lost their route/unit knowledge so when they got brought back, they had to be added in to be retrained?

As far as i can gather no one on the railway got furloughed , unlike TfL , what has happened is that there may have been drivers that have been on the shielded list , who may have lost there route competency and will have to have route and traction refresh.

Something similar caused chaos when the Blackpool North - Preston line reopened after overrunning electrification work , remember that , it caused Northern untold reputational damage which they never recoverd from.