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Sunday, 17 September 2017

BBC News

• Museum in bid to preserve '1960s UK hovertrain'A museum is hoping to raise money to preserve a hovertrain that threatened to revolutionise travel in the 1960s.

The Guardian

• Meet the textiles team designing for Crossrail and the tubef you happen to be travelling in London soon, take the Bakerloo, Northern or Jubilee tube lines and try to spot the four landmarks embedded in the fabric pattern on the seats. Peer hard enough and you’ll see subtle renditions of the London Eye, Big Ben and Tower Bridge.

The Independent

• Is it possible to protect a public transport system from terror?There have been almost 2,500 attacks on trains, buses and passenger ferries globally since 1970

The Scotsman

• Edinburgh tram inquiry: Council not told about £40m cancel feeThe Edinburgh tram project could have been cancelled with a £40 million “amicable divorce” payment in 2010 but the information was not shared with the city’s councillors.

The Mirror

• Fraudsters target train delay-tracking websites to scam millions from rail compensation schemesCrooks submit thousands of claims for journeys they never took – at your expense
• Fraudsters target train delay-tracking websites to scam millions from rail compensation schemesHi-tech swindlers are using train delay-tracking websites to help them defraud millions from rail compensation schemes .

London Evening Standard

• Fascinating 19th century London tram map shows Victorian routes around capitalA fascinating new map shows the routes trams took across the capital in Victorian London.

Yorkshire Post

• Inside Doncaster’s new National College of High Speed RailIt is the epitome of 21st-century rail providing a stark contrast to Doncaster’s long and proud history with the industry.

Other Regional Press

• Borders Railway failing to yield housing boost predicted for region The coming of the Borders Railway has so far failed to yield a predicted boom in private housebuilding here – in stark contrast to the position in next-door Midlothian.
• 'Affordability' of HS2 Phase 2 questioned by Government bodyAnti-HS2 campaigners have labelled recently released papers which question the affordability of the scheme as 'absolutely damning' after fighting years for their release.
• HS2: Owen Paterson MP meets transport minster over impacts on ShropshireAvoiding sending HS2 construction traffic through a village on the Shropshire border could prove expensive, an MP has warned.

Other News Sources

• Another delay for ScotRail’s £370m Edinburgh to Glasgow electric train service plansPLANS to run a full electric train service on the flagship Edinburgh to Glasgow line have been delayed again, ScotRail bosses have admitted.
• Train Sim World’s new DLC takes you down the Great Western Express lineIt’s sometimes enlightening to read through the Steam Top Sellers list. While you’ll see your mega-budget AAA hits in the top slots more often than not, it’s far from unusual to see something like Train Sim World’s newly released DLC - The Great Western Express - sitting in the top 10, proving that PC gaming is broader than you might expect, and that your own definition of ‘mainstream’ might need expanding too.
• Another delay for ScotRail’s £370m Edinburgh to Glasgow electric train service plansPLANS to run a full electric train service on the flagship Edinburgh to Glasgow line have been delayed again, ScotRail bosses have admitted.