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Monday, 29 April 2024

BBC News

• York Street: New train station opens in north BelfastA new train station has opened in north Belfast. The existing Yorkgate halt has been replaced by a station built beside it called York Street.
• Ozzy the bull to be repaired due to loose partNetwork Rail says Ozzy has not moved since 28 March after a part came loose within its head.

The Scotsman

• BBC interior design guru Anna Campbell-Jones on revamping classic Glasgow Subway trainsAnna Campbell-Jones - the Scotland’s Home of the Year host - has spoken about being part of Glasgow’s original Subway trains

Times Online

• Rail unions win concessions from Macron after Olympics strike threat. [subscription]Drivers, ticket inspectors, signal and station staff have received better retirement conditions as unions pressure the French state before the Games

Daily Record

• Chaos as Edinburgh train passengers queuing outside station told 'first come, first served'A broken rail between the capital and Berwick-Upon-Tweed caused severe disruption for those travelling to and from Newcastle.

Mail Online

• The disastrous break-up of British Rail created chaos in the name of competition. And nothing Labour does will alter that - Peter HitchinsMANY years ago, I made Harriet Harman laugh. We were on a BBC Question Time panel in Cambridge, discussing the piteous state of the nation’s trains. And I asked: ‘What is the point of the Labour Party if it cannot renationalise the railways?’

London Evening Standard

• Historic rail vehicles assembled for ‘Europe’s biggest display’Locomotion announced it has completed the movement of 46 vehicles into a new £8 million building at its site in Shildon, County Durham.

Manchester Evening News

• 'It's been a long time coming': Plans for accessibility upgrades at train station in StockportA disability campaigner in Stockport said he's "chuffed" about new plans to make his local train station more accessible.

Nation. Cymru

• Is rural Wales getting its fair share of transport investment?It has been clear for over forty years that rural Wales has lost out on Welsh Government transport investment and day-to-day expenditure when compared with urban areas.

Carlisle News & Star

• Carlisle politicians react to Labour plans for rail re-nationalisationPOLITICAL figures in Cumbria have reacted to new Labour plans to renationalise the railways, if the party was elected to government at the next general election.

Other Regional Press

• Letter: People are disillusioned with Powys rail providersTfW are suggesting that they are adapting to the needs of passengers when they are doing no such thing.
• Politics: Improved rail links in the north-east are vital for communitiesDuring recess, my office team and I spent a great deal of time criss-crossing the coast meeting with constituents and local businesses and offering assistance and support on a myriad of issues, writes MSP Karen Adam.

Calling All Stations - The Transport Podcast

• Competing visions of 'Great British Railways' from Labour and the ConservativesTaking a brief pause between media interviews on the Labour Party's freshly published plan for railways in Great Britain, Christian discusses with Mark Walker the strategy, proposals, details and still unanswered questions revealed in the Shadow Transport Secretary's paper [1:09]. Christian and Mark then examine the progress by the House of Commons Transport Committee in its pre-legislative scrutiny of the Conservative UK Government's draft Rail Reform Bill [28:51]. In his final thought, Christian examines some innovations by rail operators in sustainability....and privacy [34:03].