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Sunday, 04 October 2015

BBC News

• Channel Tunnel trains back to normalEurotunnel and Eurostar services are running to schedule again following delays caused by more than 100 migrants broke into the Calais terminal.

Times Online

• The train now arriving has spare seats if you stand here [subscription]Few things are more annoying: your train journey to work consists of 30 minutes wedged into the armpit of a fellow commuter, but as you leave you discover that just four carriages along the train is almost empty. Such experiences could soon be a thing of the past.
• Setting automatic ticket refunds on the right trackVirgin Trains will pay back delayed customers without them having to fill out a form, but other companies are lagging behind

London Evening Standard

• Chelsea residents protest over Crossrail plans which they claim will damage area's identityHundreds of residents living in Kensington and Chelsea today protested over plans to extend Crossrail to their borough, which they claim could harm businesses and damage the area's identity.

Wales Online

• Virgin Trains to compensate passengers automatically for delays with 'innovative' schemeThe initiative, the first of its kind in the UK, will see those who book in advance online or via a mobile app get an automatic refund

Yorkshire Post

• Eurotunnel delays after migrant “invasionâ€�Eurotunnel services have fully resumed following a “massive invasion” of more than 100 migrants in the French terminal last night, but passengers are still facing delays.

Burnley Express

• School links up with German children as part of big railway education programme A SCHOOL railway project which resulted in 29 Padiham pupils forging friendships with children in Germany has been shortlisted for this year’s National Community Rail Awards.
• £150,000 improvements at Rose Grove Railway StationImprovements to Burnley’s Rose Grove railway station are well on track.

Other Regional Press

• MP Sir Oliver Heald suggests rail return for Buntingford Buntingford could see the return of a railway system, with its MP pushing for it to be considered in transport discussions.

Other News Sources

• 'Leaves on the line' rail delays 'could be cut by electromagnets'Rail delays caused by the dreaded problem of "leaves on the line" could be reduced by a system of electromagnets, an engineering company has claimed.