Transportinfo.org.uk - today's transport news in the uk, hand picked for you each morning

Friday, 07 January 2011

BBC News

• London Tube documents 'show station staffing cuts'A third of London Underground (LU) stations will be unmanned for parts of the day if proposed job cuts go-ahead, the Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has claimed.
• Hardy and Heaney among Tube poetsPoems from Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy and John Keats are to be displayed on Tube trains in London.

The Guardian

• High-speed rail route to get 2m trees for shelterGovernment to line London-Birmingham high-speed rail route with trees to help contain noise and keep trains from view

Press Association

• Two million trees to be planted along new rail lineThe Government has pledged to plant at least two million trees along the proposed route of the new high speed rail line between London and Birmingham.

Mail Online

• New terror alert hits trains and airports amid fears of Mumbai-style attack in LondonTransport police were ordered to cancel their leave so extra officers could be deployed across the Tube and busy airports, including Luton and Heathrow.

Edinburgh Evening News

• It's another fine mess as sewage blamed on tramsIT'S not the first time the trams have created a stink in Leith, but local businesses have blamed the controversial project after sewage flooded into their properties.

London Evening Standard

• Tube job cuts will leave third of stations unstaffed, union claimsA third of Tube stations managed by London Underground are to be left unmanned for part of the day because of staff cuts, union chiefs say

Peterborough Telegraph

• Protest: Railway travel cost hike ˜unfare™Angry protestors slammed the hike in rail ticket prices as “un-fare” as they held a demonstration outside Peterborough Railway Station yesterday (5th January).

Other Regional Press

• Rail fair increases are 'socially damaging' say LabourLabour Councillors in Bedford today slammed the Government for increasing the price of rail season tickets.

Railway Gazette

• Taiwan Railway Administration orders tilting trains TAIWAN: Japanese suppliers Sumitomo Corp and Nippon Sharyo confirmed on January 6 that they had signed a NT$10·6bn contract to supply Taiwan Railway Administration with 17 inter-city tilting trainsets capable of operation at 150 km/h. Under the deal agreed on December 31, the eight-car EMUs are due to be delivered in 2012-14 for use on Taroko Express services between Taipei and Hualien on TRA's 1 067 mm gauge east coast route. The aluminium-bodied trains will feature wheelchair access, luggage and bicycle spaces and onboard vending machines. The east coast line was electrified at 25 kV 60 Hz ...

Other News Sources

• London Underground lies exposed as new documents show that nearly a third of tube stations will be left unstaffed as cuts biteTUBE UNION RMT today demanded an immediate halt to the London Underground cuts programme as new documents released the union show that 30.5% of stations have been scheduled to be unstaffed during operational hours - a direct contradiction of the speech given by Mayor Boris Johnson at the Tory Party conference in October last year where he said that staffing cuts would leave 'no station unstaffed at any time.'