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Wednesday, 17 October 2018

BBC News

• London Victoria power failure leaves hundreds strandedHundreds of commuters are facing major delays after the electricity supply to London Victoria failed.
• UK's worst stations: Passengers react to rail delaysFrustrating, expensive and unsurprising - just some of the words used by commuters about Britain's busiest rail stations.
• Paddington station: Passengers warned of major disruptionThe Heathrow Express and trains to and from Slough are cancelled until at least midday.

The Guardian

• Paddington station suffers major disruption after overhead wires damagedProblems expected throughout the day with TfL, Great Western Rail and Heathrow Express services affected

The Independent

• London Paddington station closed after damage to overhead wires causes train travel chaosOverhead line damage hits 100,000 commuters, long-distance travellers and airline passengers

City AM

• Paddington travel chaos: Commuters stranded as power line failure leaves trains stuck on tracksCommuters were left to face a travel nightmare this morning, with damaged power lines causing chaos at Paddington station.

Network Rail

• British Safety Council awards for IP TrackNetwork Rail’s Infrastructure Project’s (IP) Track team has been awarded three Safety Swords of Honour by the British Safety Council (BSC).

Sky News

• Railway stations with worst train delays revealedThe study analysed data from website On Time Trains to reveal the proportion of trains that were late or cancelled.

Birmingham Mail

• Virgin Trains staff given bodycams - and this is the incredible resultVirgin Trains said the number of assaults on its employees has fallen month by month

London Evening Standard

• Police and TfL tackle hate crime on London transport in #WeStandTogether campaignPolice and Transport for London have joined forces in a fresh drive to combat hate crime on public transport.

East Anglian Daily Times

• Disruption for commuters after broken down freight trainTrain services running through Stowmarket station are returning to normal following an earlier broken down freight train but delays can still be expected.

Other Regional Press

• Merseyrail platform works set to begin this weekMERSEYRAIL customers will NOT get compensation for the upcoming station closures that are part of a huge programme of platform upgrades, it’s been revealed.
• Over a third of Glasgow trains fail to run on time according to new reportYet Glasgow Central and Glasgow Queen Street fare better than the majority of the busiest railway stations analysed across the UK.
• Diana Johnson brands Hull Trains 'unreliable, too small and inadequately supported' as passengers face even more disruptionDiana Johnson made the comments when asked whether Hull Trains should be renationalised
• Find out more about plans to protect vital railway artery to the South WestNetwork Rail is holding a series of community drop-in sessions this autumn to update residents and the local community on its ongoing work to improve resilience of the railway between Dawlish and Teignmouth in Devon.
• Rail plans could put millions of people within 90-minute train journey of HullThe plans are expected to outline a vision which would bring more than a million extra people – and 64,000 businesses – within a 90-minute train journey of Hull
• Brighton station is best performing in UK ­(but 1 in 4 trains is late or cancelled)BRIGHTON railway station has been named as the best performing in the UK — even though a quarter of its trains were late or cancelled.

Rail Advent

• Transport for Wales successfully takes over from Arriva Trains WalesTransport for Wales has announced that it has successfully taken over the operation of Wales and Borders from Arriva Trains Wales.

Rail Technology Magazine

• HS2 Phase 2 boss defends 12-month bill delay: ‘We actually proposed this ourselvesThe outgoing boss of HS2 Phase 2b has defended the one-year setback in introducing legislation to Parliament, arguing that the move was “essential” to ensure the benefits of Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) play a role in the final bill.

The Business Desk

• Rail plans to bring over 124,000 extra businesses to Leeds City RegionTransport for the North is to submit a report to the Government in December which outlines plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail.

Other News Sources

• Northern Powerhouse Rail to boost access to SheffieldNorthern Powerhouse Rail could bring more than 100,000 businesses and almost 2.4 million people to within 90 minutes travel of Sheffield city centre, according to new research.
• Digital ‘equally important’ as transport infrastructure, says Scottish ministerThe Scottish Government is to form an infrastructure commission to advise ministers on how spending should be directed to provide most economic benefit
• Commuter trains may need over 3Gbps of mobile data capacity by 2025Ofcom has set out its vision of what will need to be done to meet the government’s goals around data connectivity on the UK’s rail network
• Promised two trains an hour plan setback is 'unacceptable'NORTHWICH'S MP has told the transport secretary that a delay in bringing extra train services to Manchester is 'unacceptable'.
• New defibrillator at Royston stationRoyston railway station now has an automated external defibrillator thanks to a collaboration between several agencies in the town and further afield.