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:
“He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.”
—Olympia Brown (1835–1900)
“After the final no there comes a yes
And on that yes the future world depends.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The future is just as much a condition of the present as is the past. “What shall be and must be is the ground of that which is.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)