It wasn’t a public announcement, but a reply from a member of Northern’s management to a question as to the truth of the rumour. This was promoted by concern over the short forming of trains due to persistent failures of Class 769 sets. There is nothing spare at Newton Heath to be loaned to TfW, but two refurbished 150/2 are going for a loan period from Neville Hill. Identified elsewhere as 150269 and 150270. This arrangement is expected to be until the end of the summer peak but may well be influenced by progress at TfW in getting 230s and 197s into traffic.