Let's not kid ourselves here, they won't have looked at the network one bit imo, beyond what they usually do.

Why would they? It's years away and there's no staff to do it as far as I'm aware anyway.

Getting a transport authority would be a good start, never mind anything else with Nexus, the Northumberland Transport Planning and the Durham Transport Planning all scrapped at the same time. 

The remainder of Nexus can be split in it's own little part becoming the Metro / Ferry operator, only, as the operations should be split imo.