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Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Times Online

• Opponents of HS2 lack belief in Britain’s ability to deliver [Subscription]read the piece by David Davis for Red Box last week on HS2 and I was startled by his lack of belief in Britain’s ability to deliver it. We are, after all, the country that invented the idea of trains on tracks. The country whose engineers created Mallard and St Pancras Station. And then moved on to build Concorde, invent the world wide web and design the chips that power our iPhones and Android handsets.

City AM

• Time you'll never get back: Passengers lost record 4m hours to train delays last yearRail passengers lost a record of four million hours to train delays last year, the worst since records began, a consumer watchdog has found.

London Evening Standard

• New train timetable changes: UK commuters hit by delays on key London route on start of new summer scheduleTens of thousands of mainline rail commuters suffered delays today as the introduction of a new summer timetable was hit by a track failure on a key London route.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Metro bosses issue warning to graffiti vandals after worker is sprayed in the face with paintA man, who broke his ankle, was arrested as he was fleeing from security guards at a train depot in Gosforth - now a warning is being sent out about the dangers of trespassing on the network

Sheffield Star

• Yorkshire leaders call for clear commitment from Government over HS2Regional leaders in Yorkshire and other parts of northern England have written to Elizabeth Truss to ask for the Government’s clear commitment to fully deliver the second phase of high-speed rail plans.

Yorkshire Post

• Cancelling HS2 could cut Yorkshire adrift from progress - The Yorkshire Post saysWith increasing momentum behind anti-HS2 campaigners in recent weeks as the likes of former Brexit Secretary David Davis joined the calls for the high-speed rail project to be scrapped, it is little surprise northern leaders have united in a bid to keep the infrastructure project on a track.