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RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)

(29/05/2016 08:20)boby32 Wrote:  I see. I assume that some of the cascaded class 319/4 will have their first class facilities removed.

These trains will be for manchester to replace the class 323 which will go to London Midland. Then, when the brand new trains (class 331/1, i.e. 4-cars) will be in service in 2018/2019 for Manchester services, the class 319s will be on the Liverpool-Blackpool and Manchester Victoria-Blackpool services. Is this correct?

Yes. I do wonder whether the 319's presently with LM will be swapped with the remaining Northern 323's as there are only 12 319's due whereas Northern presently have 17 323's.