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Thursday, 08 June 2017

BBC News

• London Mail Rail: Postal Museum launch date announcedPostal Museum visitors will be able to travel on a section of abandoned railway beneath London.

Mail Online

• Madrid to ban MANSPREADING? Politicians demand that men stop hogging space by sitting with their legs apart on public transport Madrid officials are being urged to ban men from spreading their legs on the city's train network - a practice known as manspreading.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Hyperloop One's Vision for Europe summit: unveiling 9 routes spanning the continentExecutives from Hyperloop One joined European dignitaries and policymakers at its Vision for Europe summit to discuss transforming transportation across the continent with Hyperloop.  Hyperloop One's vision for Europe creates economic unification to provide better options for people living outside of economic centers and large cities; increases capacity of strategic corridors sustainably to develop city-to-city connections within commuting range, enabling a thriving, greener mega-region; and offers next generation logistics to facilitate fast, reliable and clean movement of goods. With H...

Rail Magazine

• Contingency plans in place for Greater Anglia's main line fleetGreater Anglia confirms plans should new trains not be introduced on time.

Rail Technology Magazine

• Connecting the region: Canada’s express rail project The Canadian Government has announced funding of up to $C1.8bn for the GO Transit Regional Express Rail project in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Area of southern Ontario. The scheme will see 150km of new track installed, as well as electrification of …
• Dutch IT Company Implements Yet Another S3 Passenger Sales and Distribution for French SNCF High-Speed Rail Operator OUIGO / IDTGV Sqills, the Dutch provider of sales and distribution software for the rail and bus industry, has started implementing its sales and distribution suite S3 PASSENGER for OUIGO in cooperation with iDTGV (SNCF subsidiaries) to go into production at the e…
• GTR continues PPM improvement as First Hull still strugglesFirst Hull Trains has slipped to being the worst performing operator in Network Rail’s PPM statistics for period 2 2017-18, as GTR saw a marked improvement in performance from last year. It follows news last month that in period 1 2017-18, GTR was no longer the worst performing TOC after...
• Greater Anglia reveals mock-up of new Stadler FLIRT trains Mock-ups of Greater Anglia’s new trains being built by Stadler have today been revealed by the operator. Just a day after Greater Anglia announced that its refurbished Class 321 rolling stock was ready to enter passenger service, it has now also unveiled mock-ups of its new fleet of...
• Burnham calls on Mancunians to use tram to reduce city's air pollution Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has today appealed to residents to do their bit in reducing air pollution by taking the tram into work at least once a week. As part of the first Greater Manchester Clean Air Day that is taking place on Thursday 15 June, the mayor has pledged to use...

Railway Gazette

• Pakistan Railways orders GE locomotives for the northPAKISTAN: GE Transportation announced an agreement to supply 20 FDL C20EMP diesel locomotives to...

Other News Sources

• New South Western Railway franchise could deliver 'faster and more frequent services' for Surrey Heath commutersSubject to consultation, the new timetable could come into effect by December 2018
• OECD calls for greater transport, skills and housing spending to boost UK productivityThe next government should water down its deficit reduction programme and instead focus on investment projects to boost productivity, a respected international thinktank has said.