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Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan says she wants to electrify the Great Western railway line to Swansea, but there needs to be a business case behind the plan.

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Thursday, 24 May 2012

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  • Two city bus lane cameras removedTwo of Edinburgh's five cameras which monitor illegal use of the city's bus lanes are removed.
  • Rail line 'needs business case'Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan says she wants to electrify the Great Western railway line to Swansea, but there needs to be a business case behind the plan.
  • Campaign bids to cut road deathsA campaign to tackle the rising number of pedestrians killed on Northern Ireland's roads is launched by Environment Minister Alex Attwood.
  • Tube passengers led down trackHundreds of Tube passengers are led down a tunnel on the Jubilee Line after a train broke down near St John's Wood, in north-west London.

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  • Council in U-turn for bus lane finesA COUNCIL has backtracked on new cameras that catch out drivers in bus lanes, with fines now to be written off.
  • Extra trains laid on for OlympicsTHOUSANDS of extra seats will be provided on Virgin train services between Glasgow and London this summer to cope with Olympics visitors and growing demand on the route.

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  • High-speed rail link meeting THE future of a high-speed rail project and the benefits it could bring to the north will be discussed at an event in York next month.

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  • High-speed rail link report welcomedTRANSPORT bosses in Yorkshire have hailed a new report by a cross-party group of MPs which concludes that the new high speed rail links between London and the North is essential to prevent disastrous overcrowding on Britain’s railways.

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  • ˜Victorian™ signal box opened by Transport MinisterAn award-winning Victorian-style signal box built in Corfe Castle by dedicated volunteers “ and set to control trains to the main line at Wareham “ has been officially opened by the Minister of State for Transport, the Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP. The historic ceremony took place on Thursday, 17 May, 2012 “ 40 years [...]
  • Southeastern to be sentenced over station overshootTrain operator Southeastern is to be sentenced over an incident on 8 November 2010 when one of its trains ‘overran a station by almost two-and-a-half miles’. The incident involved a commuter train travelling from Charing Cross to Hastings in East Sussex, when it overshot Stonegate station by 2.43 miles. The rail firm pleaded guilty at Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court [...]
  • HS2 alternatives ˜will not solve rail capacity problems™MPs looking into Britain™s rail capacity have said that ‘only High Speed Two (HS2) can create the long-term capacity that Britain™s rail network needs’. The MPs, from all three of the main political parties, found that alternatives to HS2, such as incremental upgrades to the existing network, ‘will not solve the capacity problem’. The findings [...]
  • India™s first private container operator starts serviceArshiya Rail Infrastructure Ltd, a supply chain and logistics infrastructure firm, has become the first private container train operator in India to commence domestic container train operations from Cochin Port. Cochin Port Trust and Port Customs have allowed Arshiya to use the siding within the port. The company will be operating with one rake and will [...]
  • Memorial for rail workers unveiledRailway workers, some of whom have given their lives in the service of the industry over the last 150 years have got their own memorial, topped off by a Class 8F steam engine. The memorial is in celebration of their achievements from the 19th century through to the present day and was unveiled yesterday in [...]

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  • Tyne and Wear Metro workers vote to strike RMT members working for Tyne and Wear Metro have voted in favour of industrial action including possible strikes in a dispute over pay.
  • MPs find no alternative to HS2 A House of Commons report has concluded that High Speed 2 must be built, saying there is no alternative to constructing a domestic High Speed line if the railway's long-term capacity problems are to be solved.

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