Class 170 Diesel Multiple Units are set to return to TransPennine Express between Leeds and Huddersfield.
This is when the XX:53 TransPennine Express stopping service from Leeds to Manchester Piccadilly via Huddersfield (XX:17 Manchester Piccadilly to Leeds) is split into two, as part of the December 2018 timetable change.
TransPennine will be hiring one Class 170 daily from train operator Northern, being jointly operated, with a TransPennine Conductor, and a Northern Driver.
The reintroduction of the Class 170s is an interim measure in an attempt to improve reliability until new trains are rolled out across the TransPennine network in 2019; taking pressure off TransPennine's current fleet of 51 Class 185 Diesel Multiple Units, giving more time for much needed maintenance and to be put to use providing extra capacity on other TransPennine services across the North of England.
Eight Class 170s were originally part of First TransPennine Express' fleet from late 2006 until the end of the franchise in 2016. Operating services from Manchester Piccadilly to Hull, and Manchester Airport to Cleethorpes.
For more information on the Leeds to Manchester ‘stopper', click here.
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Why not give back the Class 185s back to Transpennine Express and introduce more Class 170s that Northern will need. Including replacing the Pacers aswell that are old and due for scrap.
Also Northern should use their Class 170s on other routes such as York-Scarborough, Leeds-Harrogate, York-Harrogate and across the Northeast of England where pacers are still being used will soon be replaced by newer trains including the Class 170s.
But Northern still being allowed to keep a class 185 so TPE not getting back the two 185s that were expected