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Monday, 26 February 2018

BBC News

• Redhill station overcrowding: Passengers face 'dangerous' scenesSouthern Rail passengers say they missed flights and faced "dangerous" scenes and "stampedes" because of an overcrowded rail replacement service.
• Borders Railway's success 'sustained'The transport minister says a study of the route's second year shows its
• Busiest trains hit by cuts to carriagesShortage of carriages as old diesel trains reach the end of their lease period and electrics trains are delayed.

Department for Transport

• New chair appointed to British Transport Police Authority boardRon Barclay-Smith appointed to British Transport Police Authority.

Financial Times

• London’s transport body faces bumpy financial rideTFL on course for £1bn deficit amid fares freeze, grant loss and fall in passengers

The Guardian

• Southern Rail users miss flights after bottleneck at stationPassengers say overcrowded rail replacement service disrupted travel from Redhill to GatwickSouthern Rail users say they have missed flights as an overcrowded rail replacement service caused crowds to bottleneck at Redhill station. Police were on the scene as frustrated crowds, unable to use the Gatwick Express service to the airport, continued to swell into Sunday evening as they waited for buses. Continue reading...

Reuters News

• French government ready to push through SNCF reform by decreePARIS (Reuters) - The French government will shake up the debt-ridden SNCF railway company, ending the special employment rights that its workers have enjoyed for decades in sweeping reforms to be thrashed out in the coming months, the prime minister said on Monday.

Mail Online

• Gatwick train chaos: Police called as thousands stranded Thousands of people were left stranded at Redhill in freezing temperatures and police had to be called after trains were cancelled and an inadequate number of buses were sent to carry the passengers.

Birmingham Post

• Original Midland Metro tram to go on display Tram 11, named after former city council leader Theresa Stewart, has been donated to Birmingham as 13 originals face the scrapheap

London Evening Standard

• Redhill crowds: Southern users furious as Gatwick Airport replacement bus service leaves thousands strandedThousands of furious holiday-makers making their way to Gatwick Airport were left stranded due to a "woefully inadequate" rail replacement service.

Other Regional Press

• ScotRail halve number of carriages on Glasgow to Edinburgh trains from todayPassengers travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh look set to face significant disruption to their journey as ScotRail cut halve of their current train capacity.
• Is this Halifax train service the worst commute in Yorkshire? Halifax MP Holly Lynch is demanding action to improve performance on a route which is being called one of the worst commutes in Yorkshire, after it was revealed that the Halifax to Manchester service has been late on all but two occasions this year.
• Chiltern Railways named operator of the year after launch of new Oxford to London serviceCHILTERN Railways has been named train operator of the year at the Rail Business Awards.

Railway Gazette

• RSSB calls for a more scientific approach to train seat comfortUK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has called for a more scientific approach to measuring...
• World rail freight news round-upIn conjunction with freight operator Ferrosur Roca, Argentina’s Ministry of Transport has conducted...

Other News Sources

• 'I'm sorry but we haven't got anyone to open the doors' - Bizarre scenes at Cheltenham Spa station as train left strandedCheltenham Spa station staff told commuters they didn't have anyone to open the doors of a train stuck at the platform this morning.
• Rail investment could create 300k jobs in North West and North Wales, finds reportA new vision for rail investment in the North West and North Wales could create 300k new jobs, boost housebuilding and increase productivity, according to a report.
• Unbuilt London: Heathrow’s rail links to central LondonAlthough Heathrow Airport has a couple of railway links to central London, they weren’t necessarily the ones that we could have ended up with.
• See the absolute carnage replacement bus services are causing at Redhill station Hundreds of passengers trying to travel to Gatwick Airport are being heavily delayed