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Backlash over Arriva Trains Wales lost wallet return charge
Adam Howells had to pay more than £10 to Arriva Trains Wales to have his wallet returned.
HS2 will inflict ‘Stalinist’ design on the Chilterns [Subscription]
Ministers once promised that the HS2 railway would be a “thing of beauty” but that is not the description used by residents about to live in its shadow.
Cost of buying land to build high-speed HS2 project tripled to £3.3bn over six years
The costs of acquiring land needed to build the £56bn HS2 high speed rail project tripled from just over £1bn to £3.3bn over a six year period, according to the spending watchdog.
Saturday, 15 September 2018
BBC News
- Coleshill freight train derailment work extends through weekendNetwork Rail engineers are
- Backlash over Arriva Trains Wales lost wallet return chargeAdam Howells had to pay more than £10 to Arriva Trains Wales to have his wallet returned.
- Northern and South Western rail networks hit by strikesAnother 24-hour walkout is affecting the Northern and South Western rail networks.
- Aberdour wins best small station in Britain awardThe Fife railway station was awarded the accolade at the National Rail Awards 2018 held in London.
The Independent
- £3 for walking sticks, £25 for laptops and 10% of any cash: How train firms are profiting off passengers' lost property Losing your valuables on public transport is a traumatic enough experience as it is – but train companies’ charges for retrieving lost belongings adds a rather expensive insult to injury.
Times Online
- Arriva Trains Wales kept share of passengers’ lost money [Subscription]A train company has been keeping a cut of the cash found inside lost wallets when passengers reclaim them.
- Steam train lost in 1852 to be pulled from Rhine [Subscription]The large blob of metal lurking beneath a waterlogged gravel bank in the Rhine could be an unexploded bomb or it could be the lost golden treasure of the Rhine maidens.
- HS2 will inflict ‘Stalinist’ design on the Chilterns [Subscription]Ministers once promised that the HS2 railway would be a “thing of beauty” but that is not the description used by residents about to live in its shadow.
City AM
- Cost of buying land to build high-speed HS2 project tripled to £3.3bn over six yearsThe costs of acquiring land needed to build the £56bn HS2 high speed rail project tripled from just over £1bn to £3.3bn over a six year period, according to the spending watchdog.
London Evening Standard
- South Western strike: Train passengers face Waterloo chaos with 750 services cancelled in latest 24-hour walkoutSouth Western Railway will tomorrow cancel half its services — 750 trains — in the last of a series of 24-hour strikes by guards.
- Hundreds stranded for six hours after new GWR high-speed train breaks down between Penzance and PaddingtonHundreds of passengers were left stranded for six hours after a new high-speed GWR train broke down.
- Arriva reverses policy of keeping 10% of cash in lost wallets after furious backlashA train company has reversed its lost property policy of keeping a cut of cash found in customers' lost wallets and purses.
Wales Online
- Arriva Trains Wales reverse policy after backlash over demanding 10% of lost wallet cashThe company was criticised after it was revealed the company takes 10% of money found in any purse or wallet found on its vehicles
Rail Technology Magazine
- Hull Trains' Louise Mendham appointed as director after 14 years of deliveryLouise Mendham has been appointed as the new production director of Hull Trains after 14 years of successful delivery at the company. The long serving member of Hull Trains joined as operational support in 2004 and will now join the executive team ahead of the company’s introduction of...
- New CAF trains for Northern begin testing in the UKThe first round of dynamic UK testing for rail operator Northern’s new CAF-manufactured trains are underway. Tests are running on the North West network following track testing in the Czech Republic, with the state-of-the-art trains to be launched into service by the end of the...
- HS2 land purchase costs triple in six years, 'significant uncertainty' remainsHS2 Ltd’s acquisition of properties has been criticised for soaring costs and slow payments in the National Audit Office’s (NAO’s) latest report on the scheme. Only half of advance payments to claimants have been completed within the required three-month period from HS2 Ltd...
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- Watercress Line keeps Thomas the Tank Engine partnership after Eastleigh licence dropped EVERYONE’S favourite blue locomotive looks set to continue his appearances at Alresford’s Watercress Line after it was confirmed he would not be returning to another Hampshire attraction.
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