Article in today's Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...s/northern-rail-crumbling-inside-out-17434320
Once again, worrying stuff about an failing TOC with some interesting insider insights that I haven't seen discussed on here especially:
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...s/northern-rail-crumbling-inside-out-17434320
Once again, worrying stuff about an failing TOC with some interesting insider insights that I haven't seen discussed on here especially:
"Northern didn't pay for an an 'added extra' which would allow them to rescue each other when they break down.
"Instead only electric can rescue electric and diesel can only risk diesel, hugely reducing the capability to recover from failures.
"The people controlling the front line staff work with archaic systems, literally pencil and paper, no state of the art computer systems.
"These supervisors are dotted all over the country so if a train breaks down and the crew are stuck with it, about six different people need to speak with each other to organise replacement staff.
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