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British Airways chief: build toll roads to help foot 'outrageous' Heathrow bill
Willie Walsh criticises Airport Commission’s £17.6bn cost estimate for third runway and calls for new ways to pay for improved road and rail links
Rail franchises still face ‘uncertainty and volatility’, says NAO
Network Rail has struggled because passenger numbers are increasing at a rapid rate
Northern Rail MD says North needs 30-year transport strategy
Managing director Alex Hynes told The Yorkshire Post that it is a “national tragedy” that the North has not had a region-wide smart ticketing scheme like Oyster card in London
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Financial Times
- Italy plans privatisation of rail groupStake of up to 40% could be sold in group that owns country’s rail lines and its train operator Trenitalia
- Watchdog finds works limit rail franchisesNational Audit Office warns of risks to achieving value for money
The Independent
- Rail franchises still face ‘uncertainty and volatility’, says NAONetwork Rail has struggled because passenger numbers are increasing at a rapid rate
The Telegraph
- Bidding for West Coast rail franchise faces further delaysVirgin Trains is set to run London to Glasgow services until at least 2018 after bidding for the next contract was postponed
Daily Post (North Wales)
- AMs back calls for Boxing Day train services in North Wales The region should follow the lead taken by Merseyrail and introduce limited service
- Transport police step up Pwllheli line patrols after reports of train staff being abusedInspector Dai Davies says officers 'will not hesitate to take action' against those who 'overstep mark' with Cambrian Coast railway workers
London Evening Standard
- Bars and restaurants to move into Waterloo railway arches made famous by BanksySome of the UK’s newest restaurateurs will be looking to open underneath new railway arches space in Waterloo, made famous by Banksy art in 2008.
Manchester Evening News
- Metrolink services were suspended after car drives onto track at Holt Town again The spot, near New Islington, is a common place for cars to drive onto the track – but transport bosses insist signage in the area is adequate
Yorkshire Post
- Northern Rail MD says North needs 30-year transport strategy Managing director Alex Hynes told The Yorkshire Post that it is a “national tragedy” that the North has not had a region-wide smart ticketing scheme like Oyster card in London
Rail Magazine
- Capacity usage is key as Smith states case for freightGB Railfreight Managing Director John Smith has called for efficient usage of capacity.
- ON THIS DAY: 'Thunderbirds' Class 47s launched22 years ago today (November 23 1993), Intercity launched East Coast trains 47/520 and 47671/3/5 at Kings Cross
- Rail franchising: risks to DfT achieving value for moneyBut National Audit Office says DfT has addressed weaknesses in management of franchise competition
Rail Technology Magazine
- Australia and Tasmania spend $85m on revitalising freight rail The Australian and Tasmanian Governments have jointly awarded the single largest tender of the A$119.6m ($85m) Tasmanian Freight Rail Revitalisation Project to VEC Civil Engineering for track works on the Melba and Western line.
- Samsung wins $391m contract to build rail infrastructure in Singapore Samsung C&T has secured a S$555m ($391m) contract from the Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) for Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) (East Coast stretch).
Railnews
- �30,000 reward for conviction of signal cable arsonists A reward of �30,000 has been offered for the conviction of arsonists who disrupted train services in the West Midlands a week ago today. Two fires were started at Canley in the early hours of 16 November which damaged signal cables and delayed hundreds of trains as a result, including intercity and local passenger services as well as freight. It was the second incident of its kind in the area this year, because there was a similar fire in May. British Transport Police said the attack had caused 'misery' to many delayed passengers.
- Funding approval means green light for Croxley Link Transport for London has confirmed that it has secured full funding for the Croxley Link extension of the Metropolitan Line, closing a funding gap of �2.73 million which had been revealed a few weeks ago, casting fresh doubt over the future of the long-discussed scheme. TfL said work on the new link is to start next year and will be completed by 2020, creating more than 6,500 jobs and boosting the local economy by �2 billion.
Railway Gazette
- Metropolitan Line Extension funding agreedUK: The funding package for the Metropolitan Line Extension project has been finalised, London...
Other News Sources
- Hundreds stranded in Blackburn as rail work halts trains EAST Lancashire commuters were left stranded and frustrated yesterday morning after a number of services were cancelled and delayed due to overrunning track repairs.
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