Northern Trains - How they LOST their franchise | Failed Franchises #2 - Arriva Rail North

2026 Updated Video on Northern, including their performance since nationalisation:    • Northern's Nationalisation Success?! | A h...   Hello & welcome to the second episode of Failed Franchises. In this series I'll look at train companies that have failed at their franchise agreements. Today I look at the history of Arriva Rail north and how they lost their franchise back in early 2020! As always thank you so much for watching; do consider liking, subscribing & 'joining' the channel. Also, do note that some footage features the more modern NORTHERN branding - as the footage shown is from 2024. Join my channel:    / @vanmanyo   (Get several different brilliant perks such as access to videos early and a mention in each video, from £2.99/month!) Or donate to my Ko-Fi for similar perks: https://ko-fi.com/vanmanyo Any content featured in this video has been accredited to the correct author, where possible, with permission. However, I may sometimes mistakenly miscredit content, so please let me know if I have got credits wrong for authors of content featured in this video. Any views mentioned in this video are of my opinion and my opinion only. I am impartial and will never be swayed by a company to not tell the truth, however will sometimes speak from my own viewpoint. I always attempt to use sources that are from sites that I personally trust; BBC, Sky News etc, and I will always attempt to portray the whole picture of the subject in my videos. References: Wikipedia (and accreditted sources) BBC The Guardian Sky News ITV News Rail Gazette Department For Transport ORR RMT Project Mapping The Telegraph The Standard SUBSCRIBE -    / @vanmanyo   SECOND CHANNEL:    / @vanmanyo2   X-   / vanmanyo1   Discord server link -   / discord   Music: https://www.davidcuttermusic.com/ Ⓒ Vanmanyo