Northern: Rolling Stock
(asked on 10th September 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has plans to improve the rolling stock operating on Northern railways.
This question was answered on 14th September 2018
The train operators, Northern and TransPennine Express, will deliver brand new trains, including more than 500 new carriages, room for 40,000 extra passengers and more than 2,000 extra services a week. By 2020 all the trains will be brand new or completely refurbished, and all the Pacer trains will be gone.