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Tuesday, 07 May 2019

ITV News

• End of the line for InterCity 125 trainsInterCity 125 High Speed Trains are being phased out after more than 40 years. The trains were used on the lines between Paddington, Reading, Newbury and Bristol.

The Guardian

• The Guardian view on London and England: a deep divide... One of these pervasive yet hardly noticed differences is in the quality of public transport. Londoners have an integrated system which mostly works. Buses, tubes and suburban rail services will take you almost anywhere you might want with a simple and comprehensible fare structure ...
• Human Jam: the hair-raising stories from HS2's exhumation of Euston's deade’ve found four times more headstones than expected,” the archaeologist tells me. What, I ask, are they going to do with them? “Some people have suggested we turn them into paving stones,” she says. “Which we don’t want to do, because we all know when headstones were last used as paving stones, don’t we?”

Times Online

• Chris Grayling accused of misleading MPs over Stagecoach rail ban [subscription]Chris Grayling has been accused of misleading parliament over disqualifying Stagecoach from bidding for train franchises. Statements made by the transport secretary in the Commons appear to be at odds with his own department’s documentation.

Other Regional Press

• MP brands HS2 as disgraceful HS2 has been branded an “affront to the Welsh taxpayer” by Plaid Cymru’s Transport Spokesperson Jonathan Edwards MP, after new analysis showed costs spiralling to over £150bn.