Northern (Arriva Rail North)

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RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)

(09/02/2020 16:14)ls1911 Wrote:  They havent suspended all services, they're advising you not to travel except on the lines mentioned.
Theres still (subject to delays) services operating into/out of Liverpool Lime Street.

Around 3 hours ago they had cancelled all services out of Lime St and Piccadilly with their Journey Check site saying services were unlikely to resume today but there would be an update in around 60 minutes. Services until around 18:00 had also been marked as cancelled in the NRE app but some have since been reinstated.

There's a photo of the departure board at Piccadilly on Twitter from earlier showing a limited TPE, XC and Avanti service, with all Northern services cancelled, even on routes where other operators (passenger and freight) were running, such as Liverpool via Chat Moss.

Maybe they had too many crews and units out of position for their planning team to be able to cope with continuing to run a service?