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Wednesday, 28 August 2013

BBC News

• Middleton Railway festival: Woman trapped under tram A woman was seriously injured when she was run over by a restored horse-drawn tram on its first outing for 112 years.
• Does pushing the pedestrian button really have an effect? It can seem like the longest two minutes of your life. You get to a road junction just as the red man appears.
• Yeovil £6.5m road upgrade 'agreed' for A3088 A £6.5m plan to upgrade a key transport route into a Somerset town has been agreed "in principle" between a council and a government transport board.
• Ipswich Old Cattle Market bus station revamp delayed Work on a £700,000 revamp of a major bus terminal in Ipswich must be completed by mid-November despite delays, Suffolk County Council says.
• York Lendal Bridge car ban trial begins Cars, lorries and motorbikes have been banned from one of the main routes into the centre of York during working hours in a six-month trial.
• London to Brighton non-stop: Tracking the changes to a seaside rail journeyHard-pressed commuters would no doubt jump at the prospect of a non-stop train service from London to Brighton - especially if there was a good chance of getting a seat.
• £10m work will 'modernise' railwayWork begins on a £10m project to upgrade the railway tracks between Wrexham and Shrewsbury allowing a better service, according to Network Rail.
• What was behind the Bristol bus boycott?Fifty years have passed since campaigners overturned a ban on ethnic minorities working on Bristol's buses. It was a watershed in the fight for equality.
• German sale secures Railcare jobsMore than 200 jobs are secured by the sale of rail maintenance firm Railcare to a German company, administrators announce.
• Trains from Nottingham delayed by freight derailment Train services between Nottingham and Newark Castle have been suspended after a freight train derailment.

Financial Times

• Time to abandon high-speed railway planThe UK project is using bogus modelling and sham consultation to give an appearance of due process rather than to illuminate real issues

The Guardian

• Rush-hour train evacuated in smoke scare Smoke reported underneath rear four carriages of Southeastern commuter service from Gravesend to London

The Herald

• Business leaders warn over rise in cost of parkingTHOUSANDS of drivers in Glasgow are facing higher parking charges which are being brought in by the council, with some fees more than doubling.
• Dine in style on vintage steam railwayLOVERS of vintage rail travel tuck into a traditional tea on board the Strathspey Steam Railway as it journeys through Aviemore on the Highland Main Line as part of celebrations marking the route's 150th anniversary.
• 70 jobs saved after German firm buys historic rail factoryA HISTORIC Scots rail factory has been saved from closure after administrators struck a deal to sell the business to a German firm.

The Telegraph

• Train operator under fire from Age charity for pushing up faresElderly rail passengers have been hit by an 11 per cent fare rise by a heavily criticised train operator which has imposed a rise for people who don’t book online.
• Ten speed cameras bring in £12mCameras caught 200,000 drivers, costing each one at least a £60 fine.    
• Crossrail at Canary Wharf: The Telegraph's Geoff Pugh photographs progressPhotographer Geoff Pugh views Crossrail's progress at Canary Wharf.    
• 'Driverless' car tested on British roads for first timeA driverless car has been tested on the roads in Britain for the first time.    

This is Money

• First Great Western accused of planning 'secret' 11% rail fare hikeThe Transport Salaried Staffs Association said First Great Western's move was penalising elderly passengers who were more likely to buy tickets at the station.
• Why you can get £2,000 if your holiday plane's delayed by a blocked loo - but not if it's hit by a birdDon't accept excuses - airlines face tougher rules to anyone delayed three hours or more. Ina Harmer and her family (pictured) were left stranded at Gatwick for hours after numerous problems hit their holiday flight.

Network Rail

• National Railway Museum to exhibit best of landscape photography competition entriesFor the first time, all winners and commended entries from the Landscape Photographer of the Year Award’s special railway category will be displayed in a new exhibition at the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York, this November.

Belfast Telegraph

• Farrans in upgrade contract at Port of LiverpoolA BELFAST construction company has been signed up for work on a massive upgrade at the Port of Liverpool.    

London Evening Standard

• Anger as rail firm First Great Western plans 11% rise in advance faresFirst Great Western is to increase the price of many advance tickets by 11.11 per cent from next month, the Evening Standard can reveal today.

Nottingham Evening Post

• Nottingham Post published Older drivers protest at plans for pay-by-phone parkingMAKING drivers pay for parking by mobile phone only is "discriminatory" against older people, it has been claimed.The city council is looking to introduce the new-style payment in three streets.It would mean that instead of paying at meters, motorists will have to call or text a company called RingGo and pay using their debit or credit cards.But Glenise Martin, secretary of the Nottingham Elders' Forum, has major concerns.She said: "I think it is disgusting, particularly in a...
• Nottingham Post published Planning off the rails as station re-opens with improved servicesRAIL passengers faced delays and disruption after a freight train derailed.On what should have been the first full day of train services running in and out of Nottingham station - following six weeks of signal works - rail replacement buses had to be brought in once again.Two carriages of a 30 carriage freight train came off the tracks near Station Road between Netherfield and Carlton around 4.35am yesterday causing Carlton level crossing to become blocked.At 12pm yesterday the crossing...

Sheffield Star

• Sheffield driver got phone call before smashThe man accused of orchestrating Sheffield’s ’crash for cash’ scam contacted the bus driver just one minute before a staged collision, a court heard.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Redundant workers face three-month wait for final pay packetWorkers who have been made redundant from a Moray shipbuilding firm could have to wait up to three months for their final wages.

Wales Online

• Cardiff expansion tops poll of airport capacity options Western Gateway plan  secures 54% of the vote in influential survey. A proposal for the expansion of Cardiff Airport has been chosen as the preferred measure to increase the UK’s airport capacity in an influential web poll.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Firm accused over rail fare prices A leading rail firm has been accused of secretly increasing advance rail fares by over 11%.

Yorkshire Post

• Jobs saved after German company buys collapsed rail firmRail maintenance firm Railcare has been sold to a German company, securing two UK sites and over 200 jobs, administrators have announced.

Other Regional Press

• Hartlepool health watchdog raises major hospital transport concerns after FOUR hour round-tripA HEALTH watchdog has voiced major concerns about the time it will take Hartlepool residents to get to a hospital after a routine round-trip took a staggering FOUR hours.
• Traffic fears as work starts on three different projects BY 2020, three of the biggest developments of Oxford’s history will be completed in the west end of the city, rounding off almost £1bn of investment.
• Western Morning News published Jobs saved by Railcare sale to German firmArticle
• Union to protest at Aberdeen heliportAN OFFSHORE union is set to target the helicopter operators of the latest Super Puma tragedy which killed four workers.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• PORT SEMINAR SET FOR ANTWERP An executive seminar for members of the port industry is being held in Antwerp, Belgium on September 9th-10th.

Railnews

• Railcare is saved as German buyers confirm deal The rolling stock refurbishment company Railcare has been saved, after a deal was confirmed with the German company which was on the verge of buying the business in July. The talks with Knorr-Bremse failed at the end of last month, but although terms have now been agreed, the workforce has been more than halved.

Aviation Industry

• ANA plans $25 million investment in Myanmar domestic carrier Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) is set to invest $25 million in Myanmar’s Asian Wings Airways (AWA), giving it a 49% stake in the carrier. read more
• Pilots give warning over fatigue regulationsUnion says new EU rules would jeopardise air safety
• Emirates set to launch Taiwan flightsCarrier plans to operate to Taipei from early next year

Other News Sources

• Road closed as council investigate sinking carriagewaySeven Hills Road closed for seven days as council investigate sinking carriageway and gas engineers look into problem threatening gas supplies
• Night bus fares to rise by a third in Brighton and Hove Nightbus fares are set to rise by up to a third as tariffs are increased again.