HIGH SPEED 2 THE NORTHERN HUB DINNER
and develop the skills of the next generation.” Panel session
The speeches and dinner were followed by a
new Transport for the North body, the customer experience for passengers on the north’s rail network, and getting more women into railway engineering.
Rail, addressed a topical issue when he said the Pacers on his network have “got to go” – but that the north’s rail network needs more diesel
and the quality of rolling stock. Both of those issues will start to be addressed in February when we start operating four-car electric trains beneath the wires between Liverpool and Manchester. That will free up diesels which we can use elsewhere on our network to operate with that: but there needs to be a lot more of it.
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or far enough to enable us to rely on that as a solution, so we need more diesel trains. Pacers were launched by British Rail for a particular purpose and they have had a good life, but we probably shouldn’t be using them for peak commuting into Leeds and Manchester. They’ve got to go.”
disappointment that Network Rail’s been delayed until at least February, meaning the original plan to launch new refurbished electric Class 319s this Christmas had to be scrapped. Those trains are currently being refurbished at Wolverton and Allerton, and driver training is ongoing. They previously operated on Thameslink services.
‘Short-term crunch’
of First TransPennine Express, who said: position in terms of rolling stock across all the UK. That crunch sits right across the north of come, all the rolling stock cascades will come, more capacity in the short term. We also need to sustain the capacity that’s already in place
across the network.”
at an earlier stage of infrastructure projects. currently is that we plan the infrastructure, and worry about the services and the train later. We still haven’t decided [as an industry] how we’re going to use the capacity released That’s something the operator, or the future operator, has to be involved with.”
Fares on HS2
“broadly the same as on the existing railway” because it “doesn’t really make sense to try to
is to design for passengers: everything we do is designed with the passenger in mind, for a fantastic experience right from beginning to end. We’ve got the opportunity to do that holistically, the opportunity to design our stations to provide a really good passenger experience – getting through the station and arriving at the right place on the train.
“The other key aspect is reliability: our railway
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