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Northern has appointed an accessibility campaigner to chair its independent user group which focuses on empowering people to use public transport – no matter their circumstances. 

Northern has taken its long-running campaign to reduce ticketless travel on its network to millions of TV viewers with an appearance on BBC’s The One Show.

A brand new fully accessible toilet is now open at one of Northern’s Greater Manchester stations.

Northern has advised its customers across the North of England that services will be brought to a halt on Wednesday 31 January as the latest ASLEF strike takes place.  

Northern Trains, one of the biggest employers in the north, is set to attend job fairs in Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester in search of talented individuals hoping for a new career on the railway.

Northern has seen a 20% drop in the number of penalty fares issued in the first year since the government increased the fine to those travelling without a ticket to £100.

Rugby League Commercial is continuing to team up with Northern after a successful partnership with the rail operator.

Northern is set to host a recruitment day next month for a number of vacancies in its train presentation team at Heaton Train Care Centre in Tyne & Wear.

Northern Trains has launched a recruitment campaign to attract the engineers of the future. 

Northern has helped hundreds of people with autism to access the railway in the last year as part of a scheme with a West Yorkshire charity.

Volunteers at Poppleton station have restored two historical memorials to former railway workers and returned them to their former glory.  

Northern has appointed Matt Rice as its new chief operating officer.