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Monday, 22 January 2024

BBC News

• All ScotRail services suspended over 90mph Storm Isha windsAll train services in Scotland halted from 19:00 on Sunday until after Monday rush hour.
• Airports to miss deadline for installing scannersSome will not have all the tech, which will end the 100ml limit on liquids, ready by 1 June.
• Boeing 737-900ER: Second model to be inspected after 737 Max 9 blowoutThe US regulator says the 737-900ER fleet uses the same door design as the grounded 737 Max 9s.

Financial Times

• What should the EU's role be in the Red Sea's conflicted waters?Today, I reveal what the EU's biggest countries are proposing the bloc's navies should do in the Red Se

The Guardian

• Storm Isha live: travel chaos across UK with Scotland facing widespread rail cancellationsTrain services in Scotland are expected to be suspended until around noon after “a wild night”, Network Rail says.

The Independent

• Mayors in talks to bring HS2’s northern leg back to lifeTory Andy Street and Labour’s Andy Burnham to discuss private sector plan to pay for project with transport secretary

The Telegraph

• The countryside Tube stops that disappeared off the map. [subscription]Until 1994, the Central Line stretched to the wildernesses of North Weald and Ongar. Our writer ventured to London’s forgotten stations.

Times Online

• Bigger is best for cruise liners recovering from depths of Covid. [subscription]Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas will become the world’s largest operating cruise ship this week. Its arrival comes as the industry adapts to changing tastes
• How a ’quiet Concorde’ could bring back supersonic travel. [subscription]The $250 million X-59 could be in service by 2040, carrying 44 passengers without the window-rattling sound waves that plagued an earlier era of cutting-edge travel

i News

• HS2 Manchester leg not going to happen, says Shapps after reports of secret talksGrant Shapps said the metro mayors' plan to revive the northern leg of HS2 'isn't likely to happen'

Mail Online

• The undercover rail 'inspectors' roaming Britain's railways: How train firms are cracking down on fare evaders with a private security agency which is accused of using unfair and 'aggressive' tactics to threaten passengers with court actionChiltern Railways and Transport for Wales are among those who now franchise out prosecutions to a private security company called Transport Investigations Ltd (TIL).

The Mirror

• UK town waited 67 years for a train station – and still doesn't have oneThe West Lancashire town of Skelmersdale had its rail service cut when town planners tore up the rails in 1956 - locals have been waiting for a train ever since

The National

• Network Rail suspends all train services in Scotland due to Storm IshaALL passenger and freight train services in Scotland are to be suspended due to dangerous weather conditions, Network Rail has confirmed.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Interchange bus station closed for at least two monthsBradford Interchange bus station will be closed for at least two months - here is everything we know so far.

The York Press

• Matt Rice becomes COO of NorthernMatt, who lives in York, is currently a route director at Network Rail and is set to join the train operator later in the spring.

Other Regional Press

• Chester MP slams Avanti West Coast for 'chaos and delays'The comments come after a leaked internal presentation from the firm described government subsidies as "free money"
• Lumo announces plans to carry an additional 275,000 passengers between Newcastle and LondonLumo has announced plans to carry additional passengers between Newcastle and London.
• TfL explains why there are so many London Underground delays 'due to a shortage of trains'TfL bosses promise that the situation will improve as tech is upgraded

Railway Technology

• What can we learn from TfL’s open loop success? Aaron White, UK business development director at Cubic Transportation Systems, considers London’s open loop transport system as a blueprint.

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• ’Solution to congestion is fundamental to bus future’An industry figure has highlighted the need to address congestion if new funding models for buses are to be successful
• EU coach drivers’ hours reform: Same but better needed in UKReform of coach drivers’ hours for those largely on tourism-related services is coming in the EU via a move that will give those staff greater flexibility. But such a development – which in official terms will apply on “occasional” services, according to the European Parliament – does not automatically translate to the UK.
• BSIP money and DfT pilot schemes tackle crime on busesWhile delinquent youth on buses prompt debate in the Scottish Parliament, local schemes are having a positive effect
• Louise Cheeseman: From railway guard to bus guiding influenceFormer TfL Director Louise Cheeseman reflects back on an inspirational transit from local rail to London buses and her pioneering initiatives for women in the industry

The Business Desk

• Multi-million pound transport scheme reaches major milestoneA major transport scheme in Gloucestershire has reached a major milestone. Gloucestershire County Council’s proposed M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme has been approved by the planning inspectorate.
• Funder facing ’uncertainty’ over £8.1m owed to it by stricken train painting firmNo jobs were lost when Paintbox Transportation Services collapsed into administration before Christmas, according to documents seen by TheBusinessDesk.com – but that could all change at the end of this month.

Other News Sources

• Chinese-made train system now the fastest rolling stock in South America marketTrains made by China's rolling-stock maker CRRC, the country's largest rolling stock manufacturer by production volume, are the fastest rolling stock in South America market, said the company.
• Peebles: Restoration hopes for key part of rail historyAN APPLICATION for a community group to gain title to the town’s last remaining piece of rail history has not hit the buffers yet.