Date: 21/04/2019

Rail users face fresh chaos after the late delivery of new trains and the forced withdrawal of older ones leave operators without enough to run a service.
One company is hiring 54-year-old locomotives hauling 1970s coaches to cope with the crisis. Others are using mothballed trains from the 1980s. Some are having to cut services by up to half.
The unpopular Pacer units, which ministers promised to scrap by the end of this year, may also have to be kept running to handle the emergency.

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The next service is from 1965: rail firms run out of trains

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Rail users face fresh chaos after the late delivery of new trains and the forced withdrawal of older ones leave operators without enough to run a service.One company is hiring 54-year-old locomotives

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Company: North Western Railway
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