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Tuesday, 30 July 2019

ITV News

• Major signal and track works underway in bid to cut rail delaysRail passengers faced more disruption at the weekend as the biggest ever project to cut delays caused by track and signal failures began.

The Guardian

• Revealed: Crossrail hired security firm to monitor trade unionistsBosses of huge publicly funded project paid firm £59,000 over three years, documents show

The Independent

• Scrapping HS2 would be a worse idea than Boris’s garden bridge – LettersIt would seem that Boris Johnson shares your scepticism about the benefits of HS2 and has appointed an advisor, Andrew Gilligan, who is a sceptic, but who nevertheless apparently believes we need more rail capacity. One also wonders what the new transport minister, Grant Shapps, will make of it.

City AM

• Paul Maynard appointed new rail minister Paul Maynard, the MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys, has been appointed as the new rail minister in Boris Johnson’s government.

Derby Telegraph

• Takeover of Derby train services will lead to plethora of changesIn three weeks' time, passenger rail operator Abellio will take over the majority of Derby’s rail services to London, as well as other local routes

London Evening Standard

• Hundreds of Night Tube services on Piccadilly line late 'because there is no driver available'Hundreds of trains on the Piccadilly line, including those on the Night Tube, are being delayed from entering service because no driver is available, it was claimed today.

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Leeds revealed as most expensive city in the UK for parking near train stationLeeds is the most expensive city in the UK for parking your car near a main train station, according to new research from website AppJobs. It costs Leeds commuters an average £28.70 each day to park in a public car park within a 15 minute walk of Leeds City Station

Yorkshire Post

• It’s time we had a revolution in transport - Carmel HarrisonAs part of The Yorkshire Post series – What the new Prime Minister should do for Yorkshire – Carmel Harrison looks at public transport.

Other Regional Press

• FLINTSHIRE: Community leaders look to get Holywell train station plans on the right trackCOMMUNITY leaders are aiming to get plans to bring trains back to a Flintshire town for the first time in over half a century on the right track.
• TransPennine Express's overcrowded peak time trains in Leeds squeezing in three per cent more passengers than capacityTrains run by TransPennine Express in Leeds are squeezing in more passengers than the maximum capacity during peak hours, making it the operator's most crowded service in northern England.
• 'An important and significant day' - first new trains from Greater Anglia enter servicePassengers on the 7.47am Lowestoft to Norwich service were the first to experience the company's new "bi-mode" trains, which switch between diesel and electric power.

Train Operators

• Over £750,000 set aside for community improvement projectsLaunched in 2015 by Great Western Railway (GWR), over 130 schemes have now benefited from a share of more than £3 million allocated by the train operator’s Customer and Communities Improvement Fund (CCIF).

Rail Advent

• Eastern region appoints route directorsRob McIntosh, managing director of Network Rail’s Eastern Region, has announced several appointments to his new senior management team.
• First closure of the East Coast Main Line is comingNetwork Rail and train operators are reminding passengers of major changes to services this August Bank Holiday.

Rail Technology Magazine

• ORR publish guidance to support older and disabled passengersThe office of Rail and Road (ORR) has published its new Accessible Travel Policy (ATP) guidance for train and station operators which they say will lead to older and disabled passengers being able to travel by rail with greater confidence.

Railway Gazette

• Government plans €86bn spend to renew German networkGERMANY: A 54% increase in spending on infrastructure renewals will see €86bn invested in the national rail network over the next decade, Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer announced on July 26.
• Stadler bimodes enter service at Greater AngliaUK: The first of 38 three- and four-car electro-diesel multiple-units being supplied by Stadler to operate regional services in East Anglia began revenue operation on Abellio's Greater Anglia routes from Norwich to Lowestoft and Yarmouth on July 29.

Other News Sources

• Kidderminster Train Station building to be demolished this weekBULLDOZERS are set to move in to demolish the old Kidderminster Railway Station building this week - half a century after it was built.