Future
The Northern franchise is due for renewal on 1 April 2014. In August 2011 the Secretary of State for Transport announced that the First TransPennine Express franchise termination date could be moved to align with that of Northern, giving the Department for Transport the option to combine or restructure both franchises.
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Famous quotes containing the word future:
“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again ... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“The power we exert over the future behavior of our children is enormous. Even after they have left home, even after we have left the world, there will always be part of us that will remain with them forever.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)
“All radio is dead. Which means that these tape recordings I’m making are for the sake of future history. If any.”
—Barré Lyndon (1896–1972)