Mayors call out Northern Rail chaos

The mayors of Manchester and Birmingham have called for Northern Rail to be stripped of its rail franchise and for the routes to be nationalised. Andy Burnham and Steve Rotherham said the train operator had failed to restore public trust after a chaotic rail timetable shake-up a year ago. A fifth of services arrived late, 28,000 were cancelled and twice as many services had carriages reduced between December and April, they said. "Enough is enough," said Burnham, Manchester's mayor.

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