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Easyjet backs Heathrow expansion
Budget airline Easyjet says it is in favour of expanding Heathrow airport in a submission to the Airports Commission
Britain’s manufacturers back plans to expand Heathrow
A NUMBER of Britain’s leading firms are backing the proposed expansion of Heathrow, believing it to be the best way to secure the economy.
Royal Borough to tell Airports Commission to expand Gatwick not Heathrow
Heathrow Airport should be ‘better not bigger’ is the message the Royal Borough will highlight in its response to the Airports Commission consultation on how to expand Britain’s air capacity.
Saturday, 31 January 2015
Financial Times
- Network Rail operates a performance scorecard - Letter, Mark Carne, Network RailSir, In your report “Railways behemoth becomes stuck in transit” (January 29), it was stated that there is “no direct connection between executive pay and performance”. This is not true.
The Guardian
- Why I talk to strangers on the trainNothing makes me happier than taking this moment of physical movement and social stillness to dive into a stranger’s lifeA Catholic priest once slept on my shoulder for two hours as we rattled through northern France. A lavender-scented woman once talked to me the whole way from Edinburgh to London, before handing me a small book of prayers and her postal address. I am writing this sitting next to a man with an Only God Can Judge Me neck tattoo who just spent the last 10 minutes telling me about the cat he wants to buy as we speed towards Weymouth. When it comes to transport, I am a magnet to ...
The Mirror
- 12 most annoying things people do on public transportToday is 'Curmudgeon Day', a day for being grumpy and whinging at annoying things. So let us complain about some of the people who are most irritating of all: people on public transport. As if it's not bad enough that you have to spend your day in a job full of annoying people, you're surrounded by them on your way there.
Blackpool Gazette
- MPs demand action on rail networkTwo Fylde coast MPs have called for action from the Government to improve rail services in the region.
Doncaster Free Press
- South Yorkshire firms urged to ‘make the most’ of HS2 construction workA new campaign has been launched to get South Yorkshire firms to take advantage of the business opportunities from the multi-billion HS2 project.
East Anglian Daily Times
- Rail improvement works, which will lead to cancellations to services to London each weekend, to begin on SaturdayThe first weekend of major rail works which will result in no services running between East Anglia and London Liverpool Street are due to begin today.
Other Regional Press
- The Burning Issue - Level crossingsThe easyJet flight to Belfast, Berlin or Barcelona could soon be departing from Heathrow Terminal 4. Britain’s largest budget airline is Gatwick’s biggest customer. But it has told the Airports Commission that the next new London runway should be built at Heathrow.
Rail Magazine
- Middlesbrough-Northallerton electrification favoured?Confidence is growing that the Northallerton to Middlesbrough line will be given a 'very high priority' for electrification.
- Record year for Hull TrainsFirst Hull Trains recorded punctuality of 87.1% (trains arriving within ten minutes of schedule) in 2014.
- Crossrail’s Elizabeth breaks throughTunnel boring machine reaches Liverpool Street
- Anglian work for High Output Ballast CleanerNetwork Rail’s High Output Ballast Cleaner (HOBC) has begun work on the Great Eastern Main Line, between Norwich and Stowmarket.
- Weekend engineering work begins on GEMLEngineering works begins on the Great Eastern Main Line on weekends from January 31 until March 22.
Railway Gazette
- Siemens starts work on Banbury resignallingUK: Siemens Rail Automation began work on a £40m contract awarded by Network Rail to renew life-expired signalling equipment between Leamington Spa and Heyford on January 26.
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