Date: 12/12/2011

Fifty more carriages are being put on some of the busiest Northern Rail routes providing more than one million extra seats a year, the company says. The second-hand stock will see more capacity on trains serving five key urban centres: Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield. [From Mark Bartlett]

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More carriages on busy rail lines

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A rail company announces extra rolling stock across Northern rail commuter routes to ease overcrowding.

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