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Sunday, 27 October 2019

BBC News

• Heaton Park heritage tramway reopens after crowdfunded repairsThe Heaton Park Tramway, which was shut after wiring was stolen, reopens after money is raised for new cables.
• London Euston: Rail service delays continue into second dayEarlier National Rail was advising passengers to avoid using services in or out of Euston until at least midday.
• Swan causes motorway tailbacks on Glasgow's M8Traffic was queued back for about two miles while police officers recovered the bird from Glasgow's M8.

The Guardian

• Richard Branson: Aviation can be carbon neutral sooner than we realiseThe relentlessly upbeat entrepreneur believes efficiency and electricity could stop airlines worsening the climate crisisLife has been quite a trip for Sir Richard Branson so far, and this weekend will be no exception as he flies to the US from Tel Aviv via London with space rockets on his mind. He is heading to Wall Street to ring the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange as his spaceflight company, Virgin Galactic, becomes a listed company tomorrow. Continue reading...

The Independent

• Rail disruption: Thousands of train passengers affected by sudden cancellationsTens of thousands of passengers using key inter-city rail lines have had their journeys disrupted. Travellers hoping to use the West Coast main line, connecting London Euston with northwest England, are suffering long delays and cancellations.

The Telegraph

• British Airways plane which filled with smoke has had two more 'fume incidents' - despite new engine 

Times Online

• Flying taxi revolution takes off [subscription]Advances in making batteries have lured 150 companies into the race
• En suite loos, wi-fi and showers . . . but our trains can’t keep up with China’s [subscription]Anyone with a real interest in business and global trade will have been in London last week. To look on as the government tried to enact Brexit legislation? No — to attend the World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention.

Daily Record

• Passenger tells of nightmare trip as 'under the influence' driver abandons bus in GlasgowEyewitnesses reveal how driver ran off as police arrived after 60A bus was taken on wrong route.

The Mirror

• Leaks on new Hitachi East Coast trains spark safety fears - and could cost £8bn Leaking ovens, taps flooding carriages and insufficient storage space on the Hitachi Azuna LNER trains are a recipe for disaster ahead of Christmas
• Passengers stranded after all Virgin Trains cancelled in north of EnglandThe train tracks were flooded after heavy rain hit at the region, forcing eight lines to stop their services at night

This is Money

• Launch day for Virgin Galactic shares: Company to list on New York stock exchange on MondayVirgin Galactic, heavily backed by Branson, completed a merger with a listed US investment firm last Friday and will start trading on the New York stock exchange tomorrow.

Bolton News

• Questions over 'complicated and expensive' fares as bus tickets change A DEAL allowing bus passengers to use their tickets on services run by any company is set to come to an end.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Campaigners slam use of emergency powers as Queensbury Tunnel saga rumbles on CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save a Victorian railway tunnel from closure as part of a multi-million-pound cycle plan have slammed Highways England’s use of emergency planning powers.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• The hidden past of North Wales' old railway stations - and why you may not even have noticed themThere are more than 180 disused railway stations in North Wales alone

Liverpool Echo

• Someone complained about noise at Liverpool Airport 1,181 times in one dayOne angry resident from Warrington complained about noise at Liverpool John Lennon Airport 1,181 times in one day, new reports show.

London Evening Standard

• Hundreds take shortest Tube journey from Covent Garden to Leicester Square every weekHundreds of people spend £2.40 making a 45-second Tube journey between two central London stations every week.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Take a look at the new Silverlink cycle and pedestrian bridges linking North Tyneside and NewcastleThe triple-decker roundabout, at the junction of the A19 and Coast Road, has new cycle bridges that are now open to the public

Northern Echo

• New hope of cutting delays at North Yorkshire level crossingsTHERE are fresh hopes of tackling at least three of North Yorkshire’s worst congestion hotspots, after it emerged railway bosses have agreed to examine reducing level crossing closure times.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Smart motorway re-think needed - MPA re-think is needed on a long-running project to turn part of the M6 at Stafford into a smart motorway, an MP has said.

Other Regional Press

• The incredible list of London Underground stations that never opened in East LondonOur Tube system here in London comprises of a whopping 270 stations, with yet more on the way because of planned extensions . Yet had plans not fallen through, there may have been even more London Underground stations.
• Consultation over north-east train station accessibility improvements to be carried outA consultation event looking at potential improvements to a north-east train station takes place next week.

Other News Sources

• Southampton Airport to submit runway extension proposalsSOUTHAMPTON Airport is set to submit plans to extend its runway in a matter of days.
• Climate crisis: report sets out plans for how Oxford could tackle itAN IMAGINED future where a metro rail system runs through Oxford and eating meat is considered strange is set out in a report detailing how to tackle the climate crisis in 20 years.
• Two-dimensional material has potential as hydrogen storeJapanese researchers claim hydrogen boride nano sheets could be the basis of safe, lightweight, high-capacity hydrogen gas storage One of the long-term stumbling blocks to the so-called hydrogen economy – where hydrogen replaces fossil fuels as the basis for much energy applications, either through combustion or by its use in a fuel cell to generate […] The post Two-dimensional material has potential as hydrogen store appeared first on The Engineer.
• Interview: Demand for Scrubbers to Last at Least 30 Years, EGCSA SaysThere will be at least 4,000 ships fitted with scrubbers in 2020, Exhaust Gas Cleaning System Association estimates.