Down to nowhere
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On hire to Arriva Rail North, this TransPennine Express 185 has just arrived at Blackpool North having worked the 11:29 1N61 from Manchester Airport. The legacy of the recent upgrade lingers on here, as there are only two trains an hour, causing significant overcrowding on this sunny bank holiday weekend. Rail services were bolstered by buses from Preston every fifteen minutes, but it has been an inauspicious restart to rail services. The Desiros are becoming less frequent visitors to the resort as well, their duties being assumed by 156s and (assuming the wires eventually do go live) class 319s.
185141
On hire to Arriva Rail North, this TransPennine Express 185 has just arrived at Blackpool North having worked the 11:29 1N61 from Manchester Airport. The legacy of the recent upgrade lingers on here, as there are only two trains an hour, causing significant overcrowding on this sunny bank holiday weekend. Rail services were bolstered by buses from Preston every fifteen minutes, but it has been an inauspicious restart to rail services. The Desiros are becoming less frequent visitors to the resort as well, their duties being assumed by 156s and (assuming the wires eventually do go live) class 319s.