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Saturday, 30 June 2018
Times Online
- Level crossing to shut after becoming a selfie favourite [Subscription]Network Rail is closing a level crossing because too many people are posing for selfies on it.
Mail Online
- Commuter suffers life threatening head injuries in tube platform attack The man suffered serious head injuries during the attack on the platform of West Hampstead Station at approximately 4.30pm today. The man has been taken to hospital for emergency treatment.
London Evening Standard
- London Tube travel will soon be far less painful in the heatLondon truly comes alive in the summer. We also know that travelling around the capital in a heatwave is not always pleasant. We are making real headway towards cooling the Tube. We now have 192 air-conditioned trains on the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, serving 40 per cent of the network. The London Overground fleet is also air-conditioned. However, as a Northern line customer I know only too well that challenges remain in managing temperatures in deeper parts of the network.
- South Western Rail delays: Commuters could face more travel chaos next week as heatwave set to continueSouth Western Railway delays sparked by a heatwave sweeping the UK could continue into next week, Network Rail confirmed.
- Moving one stop along this Tube line can save you £15k a yearMoving just one stop further along the line can save you thousands. Discover the cheapest areas to rent along the Bakerloo line...
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- Government responds to petition calling for Govia Thameslink Railway to lose franchiseThe government has responded to a petition calling for Govia Thameslink Railway to have its contract to run rail services removed.
Rail Technology Magazine
- Business owners face closure as Network Rail pushes on with billion-pound asset saleBusiness owners based in railway arches around the UK face closure as Network Rail goes ahead with plans to sell off infrastructure assets in billion-pound sale. Sole traders such as bakers, mechanics, bike repairs and shop owners will be priced-out by the publicly-owned rail scheme by rent...
- First of Northern's 98 new trains arrive in UK for testingThe first of Northern’s new two-car Class 195 DMU is currently being kept at the Edge Hill depot in Liverpool, where it awaits mainline testing to be carried out in the coming weeks. The train arrived on 25 June at the Royal Portbury Dock in Bristol by ship from Spain. The CAF-built and...
- Balfour Beatty launches new Rail Innovation Centre to advance digital railwayInfrastructure group Balfour Beatty has opened a new rail innovation centre in Derby today. The Raynesway facility in Derbyshire, in combination with offices at York and Matlock, will employ over 150 staff members with expertise and knowledge of the design, operation and maintenance of the...
- Electrification schemes must be put back in the pipeline after 'less than candid' DfT approachThe electrification schemes cancelled by transport secretary Chris Grayling last year should be recategorised as pending and placed in the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline (RNEP) for further development and design work in order to find ways to reduce their costs, MPs have said. In a new report...
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- Calls for more rail delay compensationMORE work needs to be done to ensure train users are not left out of pocket as negotiations over compensation continue.
- Lucas backs irate train users with call for actionCAROLINE Lucas has spoken out in Parliament and called for urgent action to fix the railway chaos affecting Preston Park commuters.
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