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Saturday, 30 August 2014

The Herald

• Network Rail is on a new track POLITICIANS will have a direct say in the level of bonuses for Network Rail bosses after changes to the company's structure.

The Scotsman

• Edinburgh trams: Drivers identify 3 safety risksTRANSPORT chiefs have been urged to resolve a series of alleged faults on Edinburgh tram vehicles, including faulty windscreen heaters, broken warning bells and problems with safety cameras.

The Telegraph

• Young actress hit by train while trying to retrieve dogYasmin Jones, a member of street theatre company in Liverpool, was hit by a train at a level crossing that is scheduled to be replaced with a footbridge

Network Rail

• Network Rail Members vote for changeAt a general meeting today, 97.3% of Network Rail's 41 Members (the company's equivalent of shareholders) voted to change the company's articles of association.
• Tours of Kintbury signal box prove popular with local residentsOver 70 local residents took up the offer of a tour of Kintbury signal box, after Network Rail invited the community to the information events to find out more about how the railway works. The tours proved to be so popular that an extra one was organised to keep up with demand.

London Evening Standard

• Smelly passengers and sneezing are Tube commuters' biggest bugbears, poll shows London commuters today vented their anger at fellow passengers’ most annoying habits with poor body hygiene and spreading germs top of their list of bugbears.
• Interview: Terry Morgan, Crossrail - The tunnel visionary driving a fast track underneath London As we stand at the tunnel opening in hard hats and high-viz jackets, the hoardings behind which Londoners buzz down Dean Street into Soho can be seen 30 metres above.
• Tube needs more click-and-collect and fewer tatty shops, says TfL chief Click-and-collect services should be rolled out across the Tube network, with “tattyâ€� shops at stations replaced by upmarket stores, says Transport for London’s  retail chief.

Yorkshire Post

• Network Rail joins public sector and its bosses bonuses are clippedPoliticians will now have a direct say in the level of bonuses for Network Rail bosses after changes to the company’s structure were agreed.
• Steam fans fuming after ban on seaside services follows line fireRAIL enthusiasts have criticised a decision to suspend the famous steam trains which have run from York through Ryedale and Malton to Scarborough each summer, following a fire.

Carlisle News & Star

• Campaign to reopen disused Carlisle viaduct gains crucial support Success seems ever more likely for a hard-fought campaign to reopen a disused former railway viaduct.

East Anglian Daily Times

• Network Rail boss says he will take every step to avoid long delays as he confirms planned Ipswich engineering work will go aheadNetwork Rail has pledged to “take every step” to avoid a repeat of the long delays and cancellations which hit rail commuters this week as it confirmed it would go ahead with planned engineering work in Ipswich this weekend,