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Monday, 26 October 2015

BBC News

• Railway line selfie footage releasedPeople are warned to stop taking photos while standing on railway tracks - after CCTV captured eight dangerous incidents at one level crossing.
• Stations showcase cinema's lost gemsForgotten films celebrating the lives of ordinary people in Manchester are being screened at some of England's biggest and busiest railway stations.
• 'Rethink needed' on cycle death casesThe way cycling deaths are treated by police and prosecutors may need to change, the former Director of Public Prosecutions tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
• VW and the never-ending cycle of corporate scandalsVW and the never-ending cycle of corporate scandals

Financial Times

• Karhoo needs to make hoo-ha to rival UberTaxi app signs up London and New York cabs, but funding is all
• Taxi groups to fight Uber with start-upKarhoo signs up 200,000 cars as taxi operators push back against app challengers
• WestJet eyes transatlantic marketPlan follows launch of service to London’s Gatwick airport
• Network Rail’s new line meets scheduleMarylebone to Oxford service opens on time and to budget

The Herald

• Ryanair in PASSENGERS flying with Ryanair will be able to connect directly onto a long-haul flight without collecting their bags or going back through check in under groundbreaking plans for a tie-up between the budget airline and major global carriers.

The Telegraph

• Chiltern Railways launches rival London to Oxford serviceIt is the first new rail link between the capital and a British city in more than a century

Times Online

• Maersk Line follows in wake of profit warnings [subscription]AP Moeller-Maersk, the Danish conglomerate that owns the world’s biggest shipping line, capped a gloomy third-quarter season of profit warnings from global businesses by cutting its earnings expectations for the year.
• Rail chief hopes Chiltern line will make his point [Subscription]At 7.24 this morning a new service launches on the country’s newest bit of rail track leaving Britain’s newest train station.
• Make businesses pay for new railways, says Network Rail chief Mark Carne [Subscription]Network Rail boss calls for biggest funding shake-up since privatisation Councils, local businesses and train operators should be made to co-invest in major railway upgrades, according to the chief of Network Rail.
• Passengers move to the cheap seats [subscription]Growing numbers of businessmen are ditching premium air travel in favour of cheap economy seats amid continuing fears over the state of the world economy.

Birmingham Mail

• Council transport boss admits: 'I was ticketed for speeding - now I want others caught too' Victoria Quinn said she hoped more speeders would be clocked when cameras were brought back next year

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• SEEING RED: Mystified motorists are queuing to 'let non-existent cars out from non-existent car park', says councillor THOSE in charge of delayed Apperley Bridge railway station should
• SHOCK TACTICS: 'Concerning' crash figures in Bradford prompt new hard-hitting road safety campaign CAMPAIGNERS will use shock tactics to encourage the next generation of Bradford's drivers to slow down as new figures revealed a sharp rise in collisions attended by the city's firefighters.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Ex-top pilot's laser pen warning as video shows dangers to aircraft from devices Dave Taylor was chief pilot for North Wales Police, and is calling for laser pens to be classed as dangerous weapons
• Llanberis bus firm man admits ripping off Gwynedd council Darren Price, 45, was bailed for a pre-sentence report, while charges against Anne Price, 29, are to lie on file

Derby Telegraph

• Derby Telegraph published 14,000 fines issued in Derby bus lane clampdownA CRACKDOWN on drivers misusing Derby bus lanes has seen more than 14,000 fines issued since it began at the end of January. And more than 3,600 penalty notices have been sent out in September alone after more lanes began to be monitored by CCTV, bringing the total number of lanes under scrutiny to eight. The fine for incorrectly driving in Derby bus lanes is £60, reduced to £30 if paid within 35 days. The council was, yesterday, unable to say how much money had been raised...

Lincolnshire Echo

• Transport bosses to lobby for extra Lincolnshire trains in 2016 Transport chiefs will lobby for extra trains in 2016 to improve the service for rail users across Lincolnshire. East Midlands Trains currently run the county's rail transport and will do so until 2018.

Manchester Evening News

• 21 bus routes hit by Withy Grove closure after city centre manhole collapse – full list of diversions See which routes have been affected after GMP closed the road near the Printworks after a grid appeared to be sinking

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Scottish MPs must have vote on Heathrow expansion, say Evel criticsScottish Secretary David Mundell has been urged to “bang the cabinet table” to ensure Scottish MPs are not stopped from voting on Heathrow expansion.

The York Press

• Major transport conference held in York BELEAGURED public transport networks in rural areas need to stop thinking in isolation and work together to create better systems, a Government minister has said.

Wales Online

• Network Rail changes English-only sign at Cardiff train station after complaints from Welsh language campaigners Members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg are calling for Welsh language services to be provided as a right

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Timings get a shake-up on Leeds busesA ROUND of bus timetable changes came into force in Leeds and the rest of West Yorkshire over the weekend.

Yorkshire Post

• John Holland-Kaye: Heathrow expansion will mean take-off for Yorkshire IT’S no surprise Chancellor George Osborne was talking up the investment opportunities in Yorkshire while on his trade mission to China last month, and which preceded this week’s State Visit by President Xi Jinping.

Burnley Express

• ‘Forgotten’ Burnley railway line is brought to lifeBack in the 1840s there were plans to create another railway route through Burnley – but it never actually happened.

Other Regional Press

• Cycle route work to start this weekAnother section of the Leyland Community Health Loop cycleway has been given the go-ahead, with work starting this week.
• Angry passengers hit out at bus operator’s changesTravel to work and shops is more difficult say Stagecoach passengers in Chorley
• End of the road for historic bus firmThe century-old sight of iconic green buses run by an historic Lancashire firm has come to an end.

Rail Technology Magazine

• Austrian Technology in the UK Rhomberg Sersa is one of the main contractors involved in the modernisation of the Winchburgh Tunnel along the Edinburgh Glasgow railway line.

Other News Sources

• Former Blackburn bus depot ‘will house homeless’ SENIOR councillors have approved the framework of a deal to transform a semi-derelict former bus depot into a charity and recycling centre.