Northern Rail's logic
To cope with the Metrolink closure Northern are using extra carriages on morning peak trains from Chester to Manchester via Altrincham and on afternoon peak trains from Manchester to Chester via Altrincham.
However, they are leaving the extra carriages on non-peak trains not in use and on some trains which are running between Altrincham and Knutsford (the already busy part of the line) between 3pm to 4:30pm, people are having to stand on up on a train when there are two empty carriages attached to the train they are standing up on.
Northern say it's because they are using 142s and two joined up need 2 conductors to check all the tickets, but why can't they join up 150s or 156s and make them so you can walk from one end to the other (as they commonly do) instead?
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