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• Final train to be refurbished enters depot for improvements
• More than 260 trains have been refurbished
• All refurbished trains have improved seating and lighting
• Refurbishment part of Northern’s Better Way to Go programme of improvements

Northern services have returned to the Calder Valley after customers were earlier asked not to travel due to heavy snowfall overnight.

Northern is continuing its efforts to transform the railway in the north by making the network more accessible than ever before. 

Northern is giving Lancashire customers a ‘Better Way to Go’ with the installation of a new waiting shelter.  

Northern, alongside the rest of the UK rail industry, has introduced amended timetables to continue to help those who need to travel get where they need to be during the coronavirus pandemic.

As part of Northern’s ongoing work to transform rail travel in the North, customers are now seeing £650,000 worth of improvements at car parks across the network. 

Northern customers are still being asked to check ahead before travelling as the region continues to feel the impact of flooding.

Northern is advising customers not to travel on many of its routes in the north west of England due to increasingly poor conditions following torrential rain across the region.

Northern is advising customers across the north west of England not to travel due to increasingly poor conditions following torrential rain across the region.

Heavy rain and flooding continue to cause disruption on some routes across the Northern network.

• Rail industry joins charity to encourage passengers and staff to reach out over a virtual cuppa and chat to those they care about during the winter months. 
• Author and illustrator Charlie Mackesy designed bespoke and uplifting Brew Monday animated illustration to be featured across station digital screens

A new car park built by Northern as part of the rail operator’s programme of modernisation, will double as a defence to help prevent local flooding.