With Northern's new trains entering service tomorrow what's going to happen to the 158s that have recently been used on Barrow/Windermere services, what services are they going to be used on now?
Will they be used to strengthen other Northern services?
Despite all the units which have, in recent times, been cascaded from other operators to Northern (both diesel and electric), short-forming of trains has remained an all-day experience, most days. Whether the introduction into service of an additional 24 carriages (i.e. eight 3-car units) is going to change that, is arguable. The sudden surfeit of DMUs may simply result in a start to the withdrawal of the Pacers.
As to the 158s, it would seem most likely that they will return to East side services, from whence they came. They are, of course, all still allocated to Leeds (Neville Hill).