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UK’s biggest rail operator Go-Ahead suspends shares after ‘serious errors’ in accounts

Britain’s biggest rail operator is to suspend trading in its shares, as it grapples with the fallout from a failure to repay tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer cash.

Alstom and Hitachi win HS2 train bid [subscription]

The government and HS2 are on the verge of announcing that a £2.8 billion contract for the most prestigious train manufacturing project in the history of Britain’s railways is to be awarded to Derby’s historic Litchurch Lane works and Hitachi’s much newer factory at Newton Aycliffe in Co Durham.

MPs back Integrate Rail Plan cuts to HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail

MPs on both sides of the bench clashed over the government’s Integrated Rail Plan (IRP) which included cuts to High Speed 2 (HS2) and Northern Powerhouse Rail, during a parliamentary debate last night.