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Friday, 12 September 2014

Department for Transport

• Baroness Kramer visits rail improvements worksTransport minister sees how investment has improved stations in Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire.

Network Rail

• Rail minister visits £280m rail project in LincolnshireMinister of State for Transport, Baroness Kramer, visited Lincolnshire on Thursday 11 September to view progress on the £280m project to upgrade and modernise a key rail artery that will enable more and better services to run.
• Narborough Road Bridge improvementsNarborough Road bridge is getting a facelift. Network Rail engineers are cleaning and painting the bridge, which crosses the A5460 Narborough Road in Leicester between its junctions with Ivy Road and Winchester Avenue.

Birmingham Mail

• Solihull MP in row over HS2 rail depot planCouncil angry at Lorely Burt proposal for marshalling yards to be sited on green belt land at Bickenhill or Chelmsley Wood

Lincolnshire Echo

• Minister for Transport officially opens new underpass at Heighington The new railway underpass, which cost half a million pounds to build, was considered by the Baroness as a “lynchpin” to the larger £280 million project being developed by Network Rail across the Peterborough to Doncaster line.

This Is Local London Network

• Former MP slams South West Trains over Chessington South disabled access Andrew Mackinlay, former Labour MP for Thurrock - who lives in Chessington - said a closed sloping path in Garrison Lane should be opened for use.

East Anglian Daily Times

• East Anglia: Region’s firms urged to bid for HS2 contractsConstruction of the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail link could help to secure hundreds of jobs in East Anglia, the promoters of the scheme have claimed.

Other Regional Press

• Commuters back on track with railway openingRAIL commuters were back on track this morning (Monday) after the line between Barnt Green and Redditch reopened.
• Bedford morning train among UK’s busiestA new report has confirmed what weary train commuters already knew – the 7.34 First Capital Connect (FCC) from Bedford to Brighton is one of the most crowded services in the entire country.