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Saturday, 15 September 2018

BBC News

• Coleshill freight train derailment work extends through weekendNetwork Rail engineers are
• Backlash over Arriva Trains Wales lost wallet return chargeAdam Howells had to pay more than £10 to Arriva Trains Wales to have his wallet returned.
• Northern and South Western rail networks hit by strikesAnother 24-hour walkout is affecting the Northern and South Western rail networks.
• Aberdour wins best small station in Britain awardThe Fife railway station was awarded the accolade at the National Rail Awards 2018 held in London.
• Salford scientists show how cars could power your homeThe electric cars with stored power that could be transferred to a dwelling.
• New £460k trial to cut lorry numbers in LondonSix business groups will take part in a £460k scheme to reduce the number of heavy vehicles.

The Independent

• £3 for walking sticks, £25 for laptops and 10% of any cash: How train firms are profiting off passengers' lost property Losing your valuables on public transport is a traumatic enough experience as it is – but train companies’ charges for retrieving lost belongings adds a rather expensive insult to injury.

Times Online

• Arriva Trains Wales kept share of passengers’ lost money [Subscription]A train company has been keeping a cut of the cash found inside lost wallets when passengers reclaim them.
• Ryanair chairman David Bonderman facing turbulence [Subscription]A group which represents dozens of UK pensions funds has called for its members to oppose the re-election of Ryanair’s chairman over concerns about how the company’s workers are treated.
• Steam train lost in 1852 to be pulled from Rhine [Subscription]The large blob of metal lurking beneath a waterlogged gravel bank in the Rhine could be an unexploded bomb or it could be the lost golden treasure of the Rhine maidens.
• HS2 will inflict ‘Stalinist’ design on the Chilterns [Subscription]Ministers once promised that the HS2 railway would be a “thing of beauty” but that is not the description used by residents about to live in its shadow.

City AM

• Elon Musk's Space X signs up first private moon flight passengerSpace X has announced that it has signed up the first private passenger to fly around the moon on its new Big Falcon Rocket launch system.
• Cost of buying land to build high-speed HS2 project tripled to £3.3bn over six yearsThe costs of acquiring land needed to build the £56bn HS2 high speed rail project tripled from just over £1bn to £3.3bn over a six year period, according to the spending watchdog.

Mail Online

• Family who lost three children in horror crash urge all motorists to watch harrowing footage of lorry driver using his phone behind the wheel before ploughing into their carThe family of a mother and her three children killed by a lorry driver changing the music on his phone want motorists to witness the seconds before their death.

The Mirror

• SpaceX signs the world's first private passenger to fly to the MOON - and we'll find out who it is next weekOn Monday the company will reveal who is going to be the first person to fly to the moon in 46 years

London Evening Standard

• South Western strike: Train passengers face Waterloo chaos with 750 services cancelled in latest 24-hour walkoutSouth Western Railway will tomorrow cancel half its services — 750 trains — in the last of a series of 24-hour strikes by guards.
• Hundreds stranded for six hours after new GWR high-speed train breaks down between Penzance and PaddingtonHundreds of passengers were left stranded for six hours after a new high-speed GWR train broke down.
• Arriva reverses policy of keeping 10% of cash in lost wallets after furious backlashA train company has reversed its lost property policy of keeping a cut of cash found in customers' lost wallets and purses.

Wales Online

• Arriva Trains Wales reverse policy after backlash over demanding 10% of lost wallet cashThe company was criticised after it was revealed the company takes 10% of money found in any purse or wallet found on its vehicles

Other Regional Press

• Guard your bicycle against theftTips on how to safeguard personal property from theft will be available at two separate events.
• Roadwork plans could cause delays to your journeyResurfacing work will mean overnight closures on a major road.
• Extra 15 per cent bus travel discount for young carers at Swindon CollegeYOUNG carers at Swindon College can travel around the town for less.
• Traffic police go back to school for road safety education in CornwallIt will be back to school for Highways England traffic officers next week as they visit pupils living alongside the A30 in Cornwall to hand out a few road safety lessons.
• Westgate parking decision was a 'double-whammy of failures' LIBERAL Democrat and Green city councillors in Oxford have renewed criticism of council leaders over a loss of car parking revenue.

Rail Technology Magazine

• Hull Trains' Louise Mendham appointed as director after 14 years of deliveryLouise Mendham has been appointed as the new production director of Hull Trains after 14 years of successful delivery at the company. The long serving member of Hull Trains joined as operational support in 2004 and will now join the executive team ahead of the company’s introduction of...
• New CAF trains for Northern begin testing in the UKThe first round of dynamic UK testing for rail operator Northern’s new CAF-manufactured trains are underway. Tests are running on the North West network following track testing in the Czech Republic, with the state-of-the-art trains to be launched into service by the end of the...
• HS2 land purchase costs triple in six years, 'significant uncertainty' remainsHS2 Ltd’s acquisition of properties has been criticised for soaring costs and slow payments in the National Audit Office’s (NAO’s) latest report on the scheme. Only half of advance payments to claimants have been completed within the required three-month period from HS2 Ltd...

Other News Sources

• Watercress Line keeps Thomas the Tank Engine partnership after Eastleigh licence dropped EVERYONE’S favourite blue locomotive looks set to continue his appearances at Alresford’s Watercress Line after it was confirmed he would not be returning to another Hampshire attraction.
• Daimler and Bosch jointly premiere Automated Valet Parking in China Daimler and Bosch have announced the successful premiere of their joint Automated Valet Parking pilot in Beijing. The technology, which debuted in the parking garage at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart in 2017, symbolizes a pioneering effort in infrastructure-supported driverless parking and marks the first pilot of its kind in China. Automated Valet Parking, to the extent legally allowed where used, enables vehicles to proceed to an assigned space and for the user to retrieve the vehicle via their smartphone. This will undergo further testing by Daimler and Bosch at the Mercedes-Benz Re...