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Friday, 26 April 2019

BBC News

• New north Wales and Liverpool rail services start in MayNew rail services linking north Wales, Cheshire and Liverpool will begin next month following the upgrade of a 1.5 mile stretch of track.
• Crossrail to be finished without Bond Street 'by March 2021'The new £17.6bn railway across London had been due to open in December.

Times Online

• Put HS2 on hold until it is approved, ministers told [Subscription]Ministers were urged to halt all work on HS2 amid warnings over the “destruction” being caused to communities. HS2 should be banned from carrying out further work until the end of the year when ministers would issue a formal “notice to proceed”, councils claimed.

City AM

• Crossrail sets opening date between October 2020 and March 2021Crossrail will open to passengers between October 2020 and March 2021, about two years later than originally planned, its board revealed today.

London Evening Standard

• Meet the man making the Tube a kinder placeFernando Solis is the Product & Industrial Designer for Transport for London and the brains behind the capital's new 'priority seats' on the Tube
• Crossrail to open 'by March 2021 latest'... but Bond Street still facing delaysThe central section of London's beleaguered Crossrail project will open by March 2021 at the latest, those behind it have pledged.

Northern Transport Summit 2019

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Rail Technology Magazine

• ScotRail's new Hitachi Class 385 trains launched into service on Shotts line ScotRail has introduced its new Hitachi Class 385 trains onto the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts line, meaning the electric trains are now running on all five routes between the two cities. Following the completion of Network Rail’s £160m electrification of the Shotts line, the...
• Safety concerns raised over Network Rail's £1.4bn railway arches sell-offConcerns over safety and hidden defects regarding Network Rail’s widely publicised £1.46bn sale of railway arches and 5,200 commercial estate properties have been reported to a confidential structural safety body. Anonymised concerns have been raised that the selling of space under...
• HS2 ignored serious concerns with winning bid for £1.3bn Old Oak Common contract, claims BechtelHS2 Ltd accepted an “abnormally low” bid and ignored serious concerns over the chosen contractors to build a key station, the losing bidders for the £1.3bn Old Oak Common contract Bechtel claimed in a High Court claim.  Bechtel’s claim states that HS2 acknowledged a...