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Sunday, 25 August 2019

The Herald

• Services between Glasgow and Edinburgh affected by broken down trainhttps://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17859344.services-glasgow-edinburgh-affected-broken-train/

The Scotsman

• Hundreds of ScotRail passengers caught up in Edinburgh Waverley 'shambles'Hundreds of passengers faced "shambolic" major disruption at Waverley station in Edinburgh tonight after a series of train cancellations and a breakdown. Festival-goers trying to get home found themselves packed into trains "like sardines".

Times Online

• Scrapping HS2 will derail Javid’s infrastructure plan [Subscription]Sajid Javid is a man with a plan, and he is not keeping it secret. The chancellor may only have been in office for a month, but that, after all, can be a long time in politics. He has already made it clear, when asked, that his aim is to undertake a big increase in infrastructure spending, irrespective of the Brexit outcome.

Kent Online

• Lorry crash halts trains in Ramsgate and MargateTrains travelling between two seaside towns were halted after a lorry crashed into a railway bridge.

EIN News Subscription

• Put transport pledge in law, Boris Johnson, to win North’s trust – Tom Richmond … build a new high-speed railway line between Leeds and … strongest. Five ways to boost transport investment across Northern Powerhouse – … – HS2 and high-speed rail in the North needs to … collaborators’’ to Brexiteers labelling the EU as the ‘‘Fourth Reich’’ and …