New Blackburn depot

[Rail Ranger]

This is a piece from the Lancashire Evening Telegraph:

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...ackburn_creates_more_than_100_new_train_jobs/

MORE than 100 new jobs are to be created as Northern Rail revealed its plans to invest £30million in East Lancashire.

Rail bosses at Northern, the new franchise holder for services across the North West, said 70 new positions will be created as the firm moves into Blackburn’s award-winning office block One Cathedral Square this year.

Another 40 jobs will come when the new maintenance depot, The Wrangling, in Harrison Street opens its doors.

It mentions that "refurbished London Underground trains" are to be used on the Preston-Colne line. A journalistic error? It also says that most of Northern's diesel fleet in the North West will be based at the new depot but surely most units will still be based at Newton Heath?

 

[ac6000cw]

It's been discussed here - http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=103488&page=353 (from about half way down).

 

[snowball]

The Blackburn depot is also being discussed in this thread:

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=133163