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WaytoomanyUIDs t1_itd6lj4 wrote

Reply to comment by Infynis in Northern regional mayors late for rail briefing after train cancelled by JonnyTaunton

They get plenty government funding, however its mostly used to subsidise the profits of the operating companies. And they tend to relegate their oldest rolling stock to North of England. And the government recently canceled plans to upgrade the railway network in the North. The operating companies need to be renationalised and the government needs to update and expand the infrastructure, particularly in the North.

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WAJGK t1_itdv8yf wrote

Northern Trains has already been renationalised though.

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WaytoomanyUIDs t1_itdwe09 wrote

Only because the operating company failed even more spectacularly than Virgin East Coast did. And unlike LNER the government doesn't even seem to be doing the bare minimum to keep it running.

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