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Swipe your smartphone to pay for the Tube 'by the end of the year'
Tube passengers will be able to pay by smartphone by the end of this year, Transport for London has confirmed.
Airport plans route change to minimise noise
London Luton Airport may force pilots to stick to a new flightpath following noise complaints from residents in St Albans and neighbouring villages.
Second Gatwick runway 'has no place in Surrey'
Mole Valley's MP Sir Paul Beresford has backed campaigners who are against plans for a second runway at Gatwick Airport
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
BBC News
- Tube talks end without agreementThe first day of talks to try and avert two planned Tube strikes by London Underground (LU) workers over job cuts ends without agreement.
London Evening Standard
- London mayor Boris Johnson calls for tunnel to link HS2 at Euston to St PancrasBoris Johnson has called for a giant tunnel to be built under Camden to replace the abandoned link between High Speed 1 and the proposed High Speed 2 railways.
- Eurostar revenues rise after business travel boomEurostar revenues have risen strongly in the first three months of the year as a surge in business travellers aided the Channel Tunnel high-speed train company.
- Swipe your smartphone to pay for the Tube 'by the end of the year'Tube passengers will be able to pay by smartphone by the end of this year, Transport for London has confirmed.
Newcastle Evening Chronicle
- Selling off East Coast would see Morpeth, Alnmouth and Berwick lose links to LondonSouth East Northumberland Rail User Group has warned that the new franchise agreement does not have enough guarantees written into it for services from Morpeth, Alnmouth and Berwick
Nottingham Evening Post
- Protests expected as MPs debate HS2POLITICIANS are set to clash next Monday as plans for high-speed rail are discussed in Parliament.
Sheffield Star
- OAPs battle to save travel passesDefiant pensioners boarded trains without paying fares in protest at cuts to concessionary transport in South Yorkshire.
Wolverhampton Express and Star
- HS2 will âopen door to more rail investmentâ throughout region, says Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlinTransport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the Governmentâs HS2 line could open the door to major rail investment across the Black Country and Staffordshire.
Other Regional Press
- MP airs criticism over transport fundingVALE MP Alun Cairns has slated subsidy increases for the North-South Wales air link, when grants for local bus services are being cut.
- Sleaford North rail signal system breaks down - days after it was installedA brand new rail signal system broke down within days of being installed causing disruption for hundreds of passengers and motorists.
- Croxley Rail Link: drainage investigations carried out along route Drainage CCTV surveys are set to take place on a Croxley Green roundabout next week.
- Train damaged after hitting metal object on track near HambleRAIL services were disrupted when a train came into contact with a metal object left on the line between Hamble and Netley.
- Network Rail admits 'considerable problems' with ÂŁ1bn rail electrification project NETWORK Rail has admitted to Wantage MP Ed Vaizey it has had âconsiderable problemsâ with its ÂŁ1bn electrification project so far.
- County's first rail station in 80 years is just the ticket THIS is what the first railway station to be built in the county in almost 80 years will look like.
Global Rail News
- MTA awards $628 million East Side Access contractsMTA has awarded two new contracts worth $628 million to fit out over 3 kilometres of new subway tunnels beneath New York city. As well as lining tunnels between 50th Street[...]
- National Express targets Spanish high-speed railNational Express subsidiary Alsa has been granted a license by the Spanish government to operate trains on the countrys high-speed rail network. The license, which was awarded by the Ministry of[...]
- Aeroexpress fleet celebrates production milestoneA new fleet of trains for Russian operator Aeroexpress has entered the final stage of assembly. Manufacturer Stadler invited political and industrial leaders to its site in Switzerland to see[...]
- Pesa orders engines for new PKP Intercity trainsPesa has placed an order for 10 MTU Series 4000 locomotive diesel engines to power a fleet of new Gama 111Db locomotives. The engines, which are certificated for EU Stage IIIB emissions[...]
- Singapore awards S $1.15bn metro line contractsSingapores Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded contracts worth a combined S $1.15 billion for the Thomson and Eastern Region Lines. The winners of two civils contracts for the construction of three[...]
- FS Italiane profit up 20%Italys state-owned rail company Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS Italiane) has recorded a net profit of âŹ460 million, an increase of 20 per cent on the previous year. Unlike other European[...]
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