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Wednesday, 18 February 2015

BBC News

• Freight firm to run sleeper servicesGB Railfreight is signed up by Serco to run Caledonian Sleeper services between London and Scotland when it takes over the franchise.

The Herald

• Strike threat after rail worker is fired for telling first-class passengers: a hot breakfast's off the menu RAIL workers are threatening to strike in protest after a colleague was sacked for telling first-class passengers on a Scotland to London service that they would not get a hot breakfast because the train's boiler had broken.

Network Rail

• Wanted! 18 apprentices from the east of EnglandNetwork Rail is seeking to recruit 18 young people from the east of England for its award-winning apprenticeship scheme, as it continues the largest investment into the railway since Victorian times.
• Railway between Leamington Spa and Banbury to reopen by EasterNetwork Rail has confirmed that the railway line between Leamington Spa and Banbury will reopen by Easter (Thursday 2 April).

Liverpool Echo

• Walrus card: Merseytravel 'Smart Saveaways' to replace scratch off paper ticketsNext phase of electronic public transport ticket rollout to begin on March 9

The York Press

• Flipping pancakes at York's National Railway Museum RAILWAY enthusiasts got ready for Pancake Day at York’s National Railway Museum by cooking up traditional treats on the footplate of a locomotive.

Yorkshire Post

• Council chiefs lobby for improved Harrogate rail serviceCouncil bosses have met with train companies bidding to run the Northern Rail franchise to press the case for improved services between Leeds, Harrogate and York.

Rail Magazine

• LU promises 36 trains per hour for Victoria lineSummer work will allow a train every 100 seconds during peak hours
• Railway between Leamington Spa-Banbury to reopen by Easter Over 100,000 tonnes of earth removed from site of landslip

Rail Technology Magazine

• MP and Under Secretary of State for Transport Claire Perry Visits the Knorr-Bremse Melksham Facility Claire Perry, the Conservative MP for Devizes and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, visited the UK headquarters of Knorr-Bremse in Melksham, Wiltshire, on 13 February.
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Railnews

• Harbury line now set to be closed until April Network Rail has warned that the line blocked by a landslip between Leamington Spa and Banbury is likely to remain closed for more than a month yet, but said it will reopen by 2 April. The route is used by more than 130 trains a day -- 50 of them freight -- and has been closed since 31 January. So far over 100,000 tonnes of earth have been removed and monitoring equipment has been installed to track the continuing movement of the slip.

Railway Gazette

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