A TRAIN company has ended its temporary timetable and undertaken a major recruitment campaign.

Last October Arriva Trains Northern put a temporary timetable in place due to a driver shortage. Now the outstanding three per cent of services affected have been restored and, by December, the company expects to have trained 300 more drivers.

Ray Price, managing director of Arriva Trains Northern, said: "The company and staff have worked hard during what has been a challenging time. Now we can start to look to the future and leave the driver shortage problem behind."

Copies of the summer timetable are available from all stations where Arriva's trains call. Their services include routes between Manchester, Bolton, West Yorkshire and Liverpool.