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RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)

(12/07/2016 11:55)boby32 Wrote:  Where will all 170s be cascaded to?

I take it you missed/forgot that prior to the Direct Award agreement being granted for the previous TPE franchise, Chiltern were looking for more diesel multiple units and had years left on their franchise agreement. TPE had 9 x Porterbrook 170s not secured on long term lease and were unlikely to be signed on long term lease (DfT said Manchester-York electrification would be completed by the end of 2018.) Porterbrook agreed to lease those 170s to Chiltern from April last year but some of them were leased back as Chiltern didn't need them all straight away.