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Originally Posted by 222007
As for the toilets yes i agree it needs sorting butr when we had Central (as they were then) if no toilets were working they'd have an increased stop at Say Leicester or Peterborough for A toilet break. Voyagers (220 +221's) are re nowned also for toilets breaking down along with xc's 170's.
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A few weeks ago I caught a refurbished 150 running the 13:11 Blackpool North to Buxton service with a timetabled arrival time of 15:32. That train calls at quite a few stations without toilets and the train that was running the service had a toilet door which was stuck in the closed position. The longest wait that the train had at a station was 3 minutes, which obviously wouldn't be enough time to leave the train, use the toilet and rejoin the same train. Rejoining a later train may have resulted in someone's journey taking more than an hour longer if they were going to a station south of Stockport.
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I think the critism's of Northern are unjust to be honest. There hands are pretty much tied with what stock they can get by the DFT. I've noticed a marked mprovement to the services of there's that i do use. At least your not in FGW land where your lucky to get a train sometimes.
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I accept that life isn't made easy for Northern Rail. The trains they acquired included a large number of 142s and they never got their hands on the 175s which were built for First North Western. But it was their decision to move a number of trains including all 158s that were in the North West to Yorkshire and to send some smaller trains in the opposite direction. Also they've spent a lot of money repainting trains and erecting new signs at stations which clearly say 'Northern' while spending nothing on refurbishing interiors of trains (which some are in desperate need of), or on buying new trains.