I'm genuinely impressed that Northern managed to get 10 or whatever number of units it was today, for the inauguration of the Civity fleet on both sides of the Pennines.
None of the painfully slow build-up that seems to apply to other new fleets like 800, 700, 345 etc.
And they beat TPE's CAF fleets to service introduction.
With multiple routes already cleared and all the necessary fleet approvals secured, I hope we can look forward to a rapid roll-out across the network.
(Accompanied by the equally rapid withdrawal of the Pacers).
The gloom about multiple faults and lack of training seems to have been exaggerated.
Twitter is asking why Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram were not present to welcome the new fleet to their areas, after all their complaints.
Maybe they were on last week's press run.
I hope Patrick McLoughlin was one of the guests - he overruled his DfT officials to ensure that new trains were procured for Northern.