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Saturday, 28 March 2015

BBC News

• '£260m cost' if line not electrifiedFailure to electrify the main railway line in north Wales could cost the Welsh economy £260m, the transport minister says.
• VIDEO: Crossrail 'on time, on budget'London Mayor Boris Johnson says Crossrail tunnelling is now 60% complete and is

City AM

• Support for the Bakerloo line extension is hugeLondoners have given overwhelming support to long-awaited plans for extending the Bakerloo line further into south London from Elephant Castle.Transport for London has received one of its largest-ever responses to a consultation, which is proposing the extension of the Tube to Lewisham, and potentially even as far as Hayes.Some 96 per cent of the 15,000 people who responded backed the project, which has been mooted for many years and is estimated to cost around £3bn.More than 11,000 people said they supported it on the basis it would regenerate the area, which is currently leas...

Birmingham Post

• Birmingham leader says HS2 rail link on track despite Shadow Chancellor's claim it should be delayed Birmingham leader Sir Albert Bore insists Birmingham to northern cities HS2 phase 2 link going ahead after Ed Balls said build HS3 first

Bucks Free Press

• Report calls for HS2 tunnel to go the whole way through Chilterns A new study has said creating a tunnel for HS2 through the whole width of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is more viable than the current proposals.

Rail Magazine

• Contract awarded for Northern Line extension TBMsTunnel Boring Machines will launch in the summer of 2016 to extend the Charing Cross branch of the line to Battersea Power Station.

Rail Technology Magazine

• Rail passengers on South West Trains to benefit from £50m improvements The UK Department for Transport (DfT) has signed an agreement with Stagecoach, in a bid to deliver a £50m package of improvements on South West Trains.