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Northern rides to success in Cycle Rail Awards
Northern is celebrating again thanks to success at this year’s ATOC Cycle Rail Awards, winning three of the top accolades. Northern’s Ian Hall scooped the Cycling Champion award, with...
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Manchester station manager wins top industry award
Manchester Victoria's station manager has won the Rail Manager of the Year title at the RailStaff Awards. Stephen Green from Northern beat off stiff competition from around the UK to take the...
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Grimsby students' design to be seen by thousands
Students from Franklin College in Grimsby launched Northern's latest marketing campaign, which sees their poster design displayed at 11 stations across Yorkshire, in view of 50,000 people every...
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Wigan engineering work
Network Rail will be carrying out major engineering work from Saturday 22 October until Sunday 30 October inclusive, which means there will there be no trains running between Southport and Wigan /...
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Northern wins top national transport award
Northern scooped the top award at last week’s National Transport Awards, winning the accolade of Transport Operator of the Year 2011 in the Rail category. The judges were full of praise...
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Skipton rail manager wins outstanding contribution award
A Driver Team Manager from Skipton has won the ‘Outstanding Personal Contribution’ award at this year’s National Rail Awards. Bob Smith, who works for Northern, was praised by...
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North West rail manager wins personal contribution commendation
Northern's Client and Stakeholder Manager for the North West, Mark Barker, has been praised for his 40 years' railway experience by being ‘highly commended’ in the Outstanding Personal...
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Major engineering work on Manchester and Manchester Airport to Wigan, Southport and Kirkby routes
Major engineering work by Network Rail to replace junctions in the Wigan area will be carried out for nine days 22 -30 October. As a result there will be no trains between...
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Northern Trials GPS Equipment To Keep Passengers Better Informed
The picturesque Esk Valley line (Middlesbrough to Whitby) is typical of many rural routes on our network. Providing accurate train running information can be difficult because the signalling on...
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Sellafield train to get more seats
From 3 October, workers who travel to and from Sellafield will be provided with more seats on the 14.54 Barrow in Furness to Carlisle train, which makes the 15.51 departure from Sellafield. The...