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Sunday, 10 June 2012
The Telegraph
- Benefits of HS2 were exaggerated secret report revealsOfficial Department for Transport research, suppressed for three years, which torpedoes the remaining business case for HS2 has been revealed.
Manchester Evening News
- Testing times on overdue Metrolink lineTrams will be tested on the new Metrolink line to Droylsden from Monday “ amid hopes passengers could start using it later this year.
Sheffield Star
- Huge growth in rail passengersA TOWN rail user group’s campaign to improve train services and the appearance of the local station has led to a massive increase in the number of passengers over the last three years.
- Merge rail firms to ˜save costs™Transport chiefs are calling upon the Government to allow local rail services to be merged and managed “by the north, for the north.”
The York Press
- Train driver reunited with ˜Flying Scotsman™ A CELEBRATION of the railways in York has reunited a former train driver with the famous locomotive he was once in command of.
- Punctuality problems for rail operator East Coast YORK-BASED rail operator East Coast had the second worst punctuality record in the country last month, new figures have shown.
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