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Rail line project axed by Welsh government

Public money has been lost on the project, which would have improved travel to major Cardiff events.

Transport chief Bernadette Kelly dealt with complaints about herself over HS2. [subscription]

The cabinet secretary forwarded calls for an investigation from a senior government advisor into the head of the Department for Transport over her mismanagement of HS2 directly on to her to respond to, The Times can reveal.

NAO raises concerns over DfT’s ability to deliver major projects

The Department for Transport (DfT) may be unable to afford all the transport projects it has pledged to deliver under its £41bn annual budget, a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.

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  • The Guardian view on England's train stations: make them part of a rail renaissance | EditorialThe government's U-turn on closing more than 1,000 ticket offices is a relief. It is time to reject a short-sighted approach of managed decline Belatedly it has dawned on the government that closing more than 1,000 of England's railway station ticket offices, in an election year, would not be very smart politics. As a sound of screeching brakes emanated from Whitehall last week, the transport secretary, Mark Harper, announced that train operators had been asked to withdraw the cost-cutting strategy, which the government itself had originally pushed on them.

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  • Škoda Group to deliver 15 more trams for Brno City Transport CompanyThe tram fleet of Brno, Czech Republic, is set to undergo a significant modernization as the outdated KT8 trams from the 1980s and 1990s are to be replaced by 15 ForCity Smart 45T trams. These new trams are being procured by the Brno City Transport Company (DPMB) from the manufacturer, Škoda Group, utilising a partial option within the existing contract.

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