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 shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospects.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you’d never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)