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Travel time threat to rail jobs

Rail workers face losing their jobs if they live more than 75 minutes from new offices in Buckinghamshire, a union claims.

Extra ferry cash 'not enough'

BUSINESSES in the Western Isles say an extra £2.5 million from the Scottish Government to help with increased ferry charges for commercial vehicles is not enough.

£5m rail safety move to save lives

Network Rail is funding a £5 million programme to fit additional disc brakes to hundreds of road rail vehicles, the company said amid calls for safety improvement on the eighth anniversary of an accident in which four railway workers were killed by a runaway wagon.

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

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  • Faulty level crossing to be fixed by end of weekA FAULTY level crossing, which has had to be manned by police several times in the past six months to prevent drivers straying into the path of an oncoming train, is to be fixed before the end of this week.
  • Extra ferry cash 'not enough'BUSINESSES in the Western Isles say an extra £2.5 million from the Scottish Government to help with increased ferry charges for commercial vehicles is not enough.

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  • £5m rail safety move to save lives Network Rail is funding a £5 million programme to fit additional disc brakes to hundreds of road rail vehicles, the company said amid calls for safety improvement on the eighth anniversary of an accident in which four railway workers were killed by a runaway wagon.

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  • Call for a speedy bypass decisionMembers of the Inverness City Committee called on Highland Council yesterday to provide a speedy, realistic decision for the West Link road which would improve recreational opportunities.

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  • EYMS adopts fuel-saving EnviroxEYMS is introducing Energenics™ fuel-saving additive Envirox across the whole of its operations in East and North Yorkshire following a successful trial at the company™s Driffield depot.

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  • Logico hauls multimodal containers for Stobart RailLogico, a division of Freightliner Ltd, recently operated a special train of new multimodal rail containers for Stobart Rail. Logico hauled the special service from Freightliner™s Garston Terminal to Freightliner™s South Wales International Terminal in Cardiff. The special consignment of multimodal rail containers will be used by Stobart Rail as it continues to expand its [...]
  • Cable theft: The continuing menaceCable Theft. Like the proverbial bad penny, it™s a subject that keeps cropping up, although the monetary value concerned is somewhat higher. The continuing menace of cable theft from the national rail network, the London Underground and other metro systems shows no sign of abating – quite the reverse in fact. Issue 64 (February 2010) [...]
  • Network Rail closes first Scottish level crossing this centuryNetwork Rail has officially marked the closure of Inchyra level crossing in Perthshire “ the first Scottish public crossing to close this century. The automatic half-barrier crossing has been removed from the network after Perth and Kinross Council and Network Rail worked together to create a new link road to divert traffic away from the [...]
  • Union claims Network Rail is ˜to sack™ long distance staffThe Transport Salaried Staffs Association has claimed Network Rail is ‘planning to sack hundreds of staff for living too far away from their work’. The union claims ‘two out of every five staff at their London HQ will be axed this summer if they live more than 75 minutes travelling time from the rail firm’s [...]

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