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Rail freight flourishes as passenger operators strive to evolve - Chris Stokes
The current serious shortage of HGV drivers is good news for rail freight companies, who now have potential customers beating a path to their door.
Calls for Northern Powerhouse Rail in Bradford are ramped up
FURTHER calls have been made for a high-speed rail in the North with a station in Bradford.
Tired train commuters offered hypnotherapy sessions
Hypnotherapy sessions are to be made available for rail passengers to help them get into a positive mindset.
MPs call ‘urgent meeting’ over latest National Highways bridge infilling plan
MPs have called an “urgent meeting” in response to another controversial bridge infilling scheme led by National Highways.
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
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- Rail freight flourishes as passenger operators strive to evolve - Chris StokesThe current serious shortage of HGV drivers is good news for rail freight companies, who now have potential customers beating a path to their door.
BBC News
- Hitachi to digitally upgrade rail signalling in GloucesterRail services are to be made "more reliable" thanks to a major digital upgrade, it has been announced. Hitachi Rail will work with Network Rail and Linbrooke Railway to create a digital signalling system for trains in the Gloucester area.
- London memorial plan for Covid transport workers releasedIt aims to honour the 98 public transport workers who have died from Covid-19 in London.
The Mirror
- Key northern rail link could pump £22bn into economy over 30 years, says reportConnecting Leeds, Bradford and Manchester by high-speed trains could deliver the boost, according to a major study by an engineering consultancy
Birmingham Post
- Major HS2 contract triggers new North East factory and 100 jobsStrabag will open a new facility in Hartlepool to fulfil the contract on an old oil rig fabrication site
Bradford Telegraph & Argus
- Calls for Northern Powerhouse Rail in Bradford are ramped upFURTHER calls have been made for a high-speed rail in the North with a station in Bradford.
London Evening Standard
- London Tube users keener on a night out rather than office returnLondoners are keener to get back on the Tube to go shopping or to spend a night on the town than to return to the office, a transport chief has said.
Wales Online
- Tired train commuters offered hypnotherapy sessionsHypnotherapy sessions are to be made available for rail passengers to help them get into a positive mindset.
Yorkshire Post
- Northern Powerhouse Rail: Building new line between Leeds and Manchester via Bradford 'worth £22bn to economy'Building the proposed new high-speed Northern Powerhouse Rail link between Leeds and Manchester via Bradford could deliver a £22bn boost to the region’s economy - £8bn more than previously forecast than for the entire route, new analysis has claimed.
Other Regional Press
- Delay warning on rail lines between Weymouth - London Waterloo and BristolDORSET railway lines are to close - one route for more than two weeks - while major engineering work takes place, passengers are being warned.
New Civil Engineer
- Northern Powerhouse Rail | Motts calls for ‘essential’ Bradford link amid reports of scaling back routeMott MacDonald will today send an unwavering message to government not to scale back plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail. In a report due out this morning, the engineering giant will warn government that scaling back the proposed Northern Powerhouse Rail route would render prime minister Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” agenda as “nothing more than rhetoric”.
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