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Tuesday, 12 September 2017

ITV News

• Campaigners against HS2 to meet with Transport MinisterCampaigners who are against the high speed rail project going through the region are traveling to London today to discuss the plans with government.

Times Online

• Four queue for the door as Carillion shakes up directors [Subscription]Four more executives will be leaving Carillion, which has already lost its finance chief, after a profit warning raised questions about the construction and outsourcing group’s future.
• Free rail travel for 1m French hits buffers [Subscription]As many as one million French people are set to lose their right to free travel under plans by the state-owned rail operator to scrap complimentary tickets for the families of staff members, outraging unions.

Sheffield Star

• Projects need to urgently progressed Your report on the delayed rail improvements on the Hope Valley Line between Sheffield and Manchester highlights a problem that has existed ever since 1km of track was singled through Dore & Totley station in 1985.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Train stations across north and north-east set for electric car chargersA roll-out has commenced at 50 of Scotland’s biggest stations with Uphall, Bathgate, East Kilbride and Johnstone already live.

Other Regional Press

• Rail industry creates new board to represent customers in WalesNetwork Rail and Arriva Trains Wales have joined forces with Welsh Government and passenger representatives to create a new board bringing track and train closer together.
• Electric charging points at train stationsAYR, Troon and Girvan are to benefit from new electric charging points at their train stations.
• £3m Bridgnorth training centre welcomes first apprentices A £3 million training centre which is set to deliver thousands of apprenticeships in Shropshire over the coming years has opened its doors.
• Petition against north Northamptonshire rail changes attracts 5,000 signatures A petition against plans to radically change train services in the north of the county has reached 5,000 signatures.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Innovative pilot shows how WiFi data can improve journeys across the Tube Tube journeys could be improved through Transport for London (TfL) harnessing WiFi data to make more information available to customers as they move around London, new research has shown. The four-week TfL pilot, which ran between November and December last year, studied how depersonalised WiFi connection data from customers’ mobile devices could be used to better understand how people navigate the London Underground network, allowing TfL to improve the experience for customers.   

Rail Technology Magazine

• TfL seeking permanent customer wi-fi data collection on the TubeTfL is looking to collect wi-fi data from passengers on a permanent basis across the full Tube network after a four-week trial revealed findings and patterns that could not be detected solely from ticketing data or paper-based surveys.
• West Midlands approves £3.4bn decade-long rail investment planMembers of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) have now formally stamped the 2026 Delivery Plan for Transport that will see £3.4bn invested into tram extensions, suburban rail lines and new stations over the next decade, as well as cycle routes and motorway improvements.
• Network Rail appoints chair for new Wales route boardNetwork Rail, Arriva Trains Wales and the Welsh Government have joined forces to create a new board that builds on the industry’s ambition to bring track and train closer together – especially as the new Wales and Borders franchise edges ever closer.

Railnews

• Government faces autumn of discontent over electrification retreats The government is facing a growing wave of protests following the latest cancellations of railway electrification plans. Some MPs are already applying pressure. Chris Ruane has lodged Parliamentary Questions asking Mr Grayling how much route has been electrified since 2010, and also which rail electrification projects have been cancelled over the past decade, while environmental campaigners carried a giant electric plug on a relay journey by rail from Bedford to Sheffield on Saturday, compiling a petition en route.