News

A total of 36 new defibrillators are set to be installed at Northern’s stations in South Yorkshire.  

People heading to Blackpool on trains operated by Northern will now be able to buy one ‘through ticket’ that will also cover their bus and tram journeys in the town.

A man from Bradford has been nominated for a national rail industry award for his community work across the East Midlands and Yorkshire.

A special exhibition at one of Northern’s stations has celebrated how the railway transformed the quiet spa of Harrogate 160 years ago into a bustling tourist town. 

Train operator, Northern, has begun the process of training its 7,000-strong workforce in how to spot vulnerable people on the railway – AND have the confidence to intervene.

A man from Liverpool has been nominated for a national rail industry award for his life saving response to a customer who had attempted to take their own life at Southport station.

Thirsty customers will soon be able to refill their water bottles across some of Northern’s busiest stations and cut down on plastic waste.  

Northern and members of the local community celebrated new colourful additions to Cross Gates station on Friday (22 July).  

A photography project by students at Clarendon Sixth Form College has been unveiled at Ashton-under-Lyne station by local MP, Angela Rayner, as part of a makeover by train operator, Northern.

Schoolchildren in Northumberland have been given a glimpse into the future of travel on the county’s railway as they boarded a special train service between Newcastle and Morpeth.  

Northern has published the timetable for the skeleton service it will operate next Wednesday (27 July) and issued a Do Not Travel notice for the day when industrial action by the RMT union is set to take place.

Train operator, Northern, has offered a £1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the person that threw a brick at one of its services on approach to Hull Paragon station last month. (Monday, 20 June)