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Saturday, 21 February 2015

BBC News

• Night Tube to run on most linesNight-time services are to run at weekends on most Tube lines, the London Overground and Docklands Light Railway, it is announced.

Financial Times

• Chefs look to dine until dawn in LondonRestaurants expected to open later when tube starts all-night services later this year

The Guardian

• Expanded all-night tube plans are pre-election stunt, say rail unionsUnions question substance of George Osborne and Boris Johnson’s joint announcement of additions to 24-hour tube plans

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Wrexham to Birmingham rail service savedCampaigners were celebrating today after a threatened rail service from Wrexham to Birmingham was saved.

London Evening Standard

• All-night Tube services to be extended to much of London's rail network All-night rail services are to be extended to the London Overground, Docklands Light Railway and most Tube lines.

Other Regional Press

• Shadow transport secretary joins Calder Valley train campaignThe Shadow Transport Secretary joined Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Calder Valley, Josh Fenton-Glynn and a group of campaigners to give his backing to the campaign for better rail services.
• Rail row flares as Labour challenger slams Hitchin MP’s ‘outside interests’A political row has flared after Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate accused Hitchin’s MP of being too busy to help his constituents due to work interests outside Parliament. The spat started when Peter Lilley MP met executives from under-fire rail company Govia Great Northern – which runs train lines through North Herts from London King’s Cross – to discuss their future plans and the repeated delays long-suffering commuters have endured since it took over the First Capital Connect franchise.

Rail Magazine

• East Anglia rail franchise competition begins Procurement starts for new contract from October 2016.
• West Anglia task force looks to improve London-Stansted Airport connectionsBid to improve rail connections between London Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport.

Railnews

• Plans for more 24-hour trains are unveiled in London Plans to extend all-night services to the subsurface lines of London Underground as well as the DLR and part of the Overground have been announced by the Chancellor and the Mayor of London. But the RMT said the announcement had been

Railway Gazette

• Battery-diesel and dual-fuel locos roll outCHINA: CSR Ziyang has unveiled a 3 000 hp diesel-battery hybrid locomotive rated for use at marshalling yards, and a LNG-fuelled loco for mainline freight use

Transportxtra

• Chancellor signals Bakerloo line extension part of "long-term economic plan"The Chancellor today launched a "long-term economic plan for London" that asks TfL for detailed proposals for a proposed extension of the Bakerloo line to south-east London.