Nym
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The whole point is trying to homogenise fleets, there's no point in having a micro-fleet at Northern of a handful of units. (Oh, hang on, 180s?)
And this whole infrastructure changes thing for 172s vice 150s on the Bedford to Bletchley Line I'm really sick of this broken record now, isolate one door and you're fine, and the chances are the doors will fit on the platform anyway.
Eight two carriage units certainly would be welcome around Manchester on the Bolton line to replace the services that will be going via Eccles instead, but it still needs a shed tonne of EMUs into the Manchester area ASAP. One of the main things that prevents the need for a silly amount more DMUs in Northernland is the provision of EMU services to Wigan ASAP to abstract passengers from Wigan away from the via Bolton and via Atherton services to travel via Eccles instead, meaning that said services via Bolton and Atherton are freed up for passengers between Wigan and Manchester. (Via Eccles would be sub. 30mins, 15mins better than the current fastest time, and 4, 6 or 8 car EMUs would be plenty of encouragement to use that route.)
And this whole infrastructure changes thing for 172s vice 150s on the Bedford to Bletchley Line I'm really sick of this broken record now, isolate one door and you're fine, and the chances are the doors will fit on the platform anyway.
Eight two carriage units certainly would be welcome around Manchester on the Bolton line to replace the services that will be going via Eccles instead, but it still needs a shed tonne of EMUs into the Manchester area ASAP. One of the main things that prevents the need for a silly amount more DMUs in Northernland is the provision of EMU services to Wigan ASAP to abstract passengers from Wigan away from the via Bolton and via Atherton services to travel via Eccles instead, meaning that said services via Bolton and Atherton are freed up for passengers between Wigan and Manchester. (Via Eccles would be sub. 30mins, 15mins better than the current fastest time, and 4, 6 or 8 car EMUs would be plenty of encouragement to use that route.)