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Tuesday, 22 September 2015

BBC News

• 'Stunning' New Street station praisedMany rail passengers praise Birmingham's newly-refurbished New Street station, while others ask if it is
• Great Western goes back to the futureRebranded Great Western Railway (GWR) trains are unveiled by the company previously known as First Great Western.

Times Online

• Leave railways alone, former Labour minister pleads [subscription]Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to renationalise the railways will cost billions of pounds but fail to make any difference to the standard of service, according to a former Labour rail minister.

Daily Record

• Union bosses react with fury over plans to privatise Network Rail GENERAL secretary of Rail, Maritime and Transport union Mick Cash said any threat "will meet with the hardest possible industrial and political response from RMT."

Mail Online

• Go back to Brunel, not the hell of British Rail...by MICHAEL WILLIAMS MICHAEL WILLIAMS: There was no 'golden age' of the railway under state ownership, and those who believe so are suffering from delusion or a tragic failure of memory.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Passengers evacuated after coach crashes through railings at Wrexham train stationThe vehicle is hanging over an embankment above the car park to Wrexham General and is blocking the road in both directions

London Evening Standard

• Victoria line severe delays: Oxford Circus shuts due to faulty train, stranding hundreds in grim weatherCommuters faced Tube chaos “worse than during a strikeâ€� this evening as the Victoria line was crippled by a faulty train, leaving hundreds stranded outside Oxford Circus in miserable weather.

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Call for more car parking at Leeds stationTransport chiefs are being urged to do more to ease parking congestion near Horsforth railway station.
• Passengers disrupted as emergency engineering works hits services in the northRAIL passengers in the north have been hit by long delays due to emergency engineering works.

Other Regional Press

• Rail firm seeks apprentices to get on board with new careerA train company is offering 12 young people the chance to join and free training and support scheme designed to help them into work.
• Rail firm seeks apprentices to get on board with new careerA train company is offering 12 young people the chance to join and free training and support scheme designed to help them into work.

Railnews

• The Great Western Railway is back in business Weekday commuter trains run officially under the banner of the Great Western Railway are arriving at Paddington today for the first time since 31 December 1947. FirstGroup is launching its new franchise under the brand of the former company which existed continuously from the 1830s until 1947, being the only one to survive the 'Grouping' of 1923.