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Tuesday, 25 September 2018

The Guardian

• Northern rail compensation scheme to include non-season ticket holdersRegular passengers affected by bungled timetable launch to be allowed to claim for additional payouts

Network Rail

• Completion of bridge work marks milestone in the project to double the number of tracks into Bristol Temple MeadsNetwork Rail completed work to strengthen St Mark’s road bridge in Bristol last month, as part of the project to double the number of railway lines between Bristol Temple Meads and Filton Abbey Wood stations. The tracks are being doubled to enable an increase in trains from 2019 to help meet growing demand.

Bolton News

• Rail union bosses blame Northern for 'collapsing' strike talksThe Rail Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) has agreed a further three strikes on October 6,13 and 20 after already striking on every Saturday in September.

Liverpool Echo

• £18.75m Halton Curve rail relaunch delayed by six months because of 'lack of trains'The launch of the £18.75m Halton Curve upgraded rail line between Chester and Liverpool has been delayed because of 'a lack of trains'.

London Evening Standard

• TfL Tube strike 2018: Last-ditch talks being held in bid to avert Piccadilly line walkoutLast-ditch talks are being held on Monday in a bid to avoid strike action on the London Underground which threatens to shut down the Piccadilly line.
• TfL Tube strike 2018: Piccadilly line walkout dates in September plus everything else you need to knowPiccadilly line drivers are planning to hold a 48-hour walk-out this week which is expected to shut down the entire Tube line.

Northern Echo

• Hitachi need Metro deal HAVING campaigned passionately for the construction of the Hitachi train-building factory at Newton Aycliffe, which opened in 2015, we are extremely disappointed to learn that the company is not renewing the contracts of more than 100 of its temporary workers.

Daventry Express

• Plans submitted for controversial rail freight interchange that could take up huge swathe of South Northants countrysideRail Central is a proposed Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) where the West Coast Main Line and Northampton Loop Line intersect, adjacent to the A43 and within two miles of Junction 15A of the M1.

New Civil Engineer

• Labour could ‘renationalise railways within five years’Senior Labour peers have suggested that the party could renationalise Britain’s railways “within five years” if elected.

Rail Magazine

• 30,000 jobs at the peak of HS2 construction High Speed 2 Ltd says that at the peak of the line’s Phase 1 construction work, 30,000 people will be working on or supported by the project in 2021-22, with more than 25,000 employed in construction alone.
• UK interest in Alstom’s hydrogen-powered trainsAs Alstom put its hydrogen multiple unit into traffic in Lower Saxony on September 17, the company confirmed significant interest from the UK in the technology.
• Class 710 testing due to move to the main lineMain line testing of London Overground Class 710s is set to begin at the end of this month.

Rail Technology Magazine

• Northern to launch extended compensation scheme for regular travellersNorthern has launched an extended compensation scheme to include regular travellers who don’t hold season tickets following the major disruption passengers had to endure in the summer. Transport for the North (TfN) has been working with Northern to broker the compensation scheme, and...
• Crossrail: Khan commissions report into governance, says he 'cannot be sure' of completion dateThe London mayor has failed to quell concerns about the future of the city’s Crossrail project after he claimed he ‘cannot be sure’ of the completion date. Speaking to BBC Radio London, Sadiq Khan that a “very speedy” report had been commissioned into the governance...

Other News Sources

• Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers on the future of Grimsby stadium, a direct train to London and BrexitCleethorpes MP Martin Vickers has spoken about the future of a range of issues affecting the town.