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Saturday, 18 April 2015

BBC News

• Transport complaints up by 40%Complaints about transport in Greater Manchester have risen by 40%, new figures reveal.
• Transport police hold violence summitA summit is being held by British Transport Police to tackle violence and anti-social behaviour by football fans on the transport network.

London Evening Standard

• Hundreds of commuters locked out of Oxford Circus station 'to keep people safe' Tube bosses today admitted that the locking of huge numbers of passengers outside Oxford Circus station was part of a plan to keep the overcrowded system safe.
• 'Nightmare' Finsbury Park entrance closure POSTPONED until further notice, Transport for London confirms The long-term closure of a Finsbury Park station entrance - which commuters feared would spell years of chaos - has been postponed until further notice.
• Andrew Neather: Crossrail 2 is the most crucial plan yet for the capital Do the parties really care about London? This weeks manifestos have made little specific mention of the capital. Put that down to the provinces mistrust of our city: David Cameron and Ed Miliband know that waving big-ticket London commitments in the face of West Midlanders wont win their votes. Yet the next government will have to nail its colours to the mast on investing in London very soon.

Sheffield Star

• On track for £21m Doncaster rail upgradeThe timeline of Doncaster’s proud rail history is on track for another landmark moment as it steams towards a £21 million cash injection.

Yorkshire Post

• Overturned car on rail line at Shipley halts trainsA CAR accident left a vehicle overturned on a busy rail line into Leeds and its driver being taken to hospital, with train services held up for more than two hours this morning.
• Thieves cost rail industry £400k by stealing cable from tracksideA cable theft from the side of a railway track which led to six train services being cancelled cost the rail industry more than £400,000.

Blackpool Gazette

• Resort stations to host protest by rail unionsRail union protestors will be outside railway stations in Blackpool next week as part of a campaign against changes to rail franchises ahead of the general election.

Bucks Free Press

• Train passengers told to help stamp out thuggish football fan behaviour on Bucks trains Thuggish behaviour from travelling football fans should not be tolerated, a by British Transport Police heard today ahead of a busy Wembley weekend.

Doncaster Free Press

• On track for £21m Doncaster rail upgradeThe timeline of Doncaster’s proud rail history is on track for another landmark moment as it steams towards a £21 million cash injection.

Rail Magazine

• VIDEO: Class 37 cab rideA brief clip of a Class 37 cab ride through Stowmarket, Suffolk.
• Driver advisory technology introduced to South West Trains networkTechnology will help trains arrive on time on one of Europe’s busiest networks.

Railnews

• RMT members to vote after Network Rail pay talks fail Pay talks between Network Rail and the RMT have broken down, and the union said it will now ballot 16,000 staff over industrial action. The failure of the negotiations will cause widespread concern across the railway industry, and the dispute also threatens to become an election issue. Network Rail said it was experiencing 'financial pressures' and that its offer is fair, but the RMT has condemned the proposed deal as 'wholly inadequate'.

Railway Gazette

• Manuela Hutter ChalmersManuela Hutter Chalmers has been named Head of Finance & HR at Swiss railway Südostbahn.
• Doha tram feels the heatQATAR: Testing is underway at the Rail Tec Arsenal climate chamber in Wien to verify that the 19...