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Saturday, 21 September 2019

Financial Times

• Regulator to investigate West Coast rail franchiseCMA will look at whether award raises competition concerns

The Scotsman

• Competition watchdog probes West Coast Rail franchise awardThe competition watchdog has launched a probe into the award of a contract to replace Virgin Trains in running services on the West Coast Main Line.

Birmingham Post

• 'Airline approach' means Hull Trains passengers can order food from seatCurrently, only first-class passengers have been able to enjoy the service

Bolton News

• Rail union boss hits out at Northern's improvement claimsA RAIL union general secretary has accused Northern bosses for 'glossing over' serious problems in the wake of last year's timetable chaos.

London Evening Standard

• West Ham station: Police appeal after 'shockingly violent' attack on TfL Tube staffPolice are trying to identify a group of people after staff suffered a
• 15 images that tell the story of the London UndergroundFrom its humble beginnings in 1863 to the sprawling network it is now, take a look back through the history of the tube

Rail Technology Magazine

• Ground-breaking rail collaboration launched to improve services for passengers  A ground-breaking deal has been agreed today among rail bosses to deliver higher standards for rail users in the West Midlands.   Areas that fall under the new, first-of-its-kind West Midlands Grand Rail Collaboration (GRC) deal will benefit from improved train service performance...

Railnews

• Grant Shapps wants rail fares paid to independent body Transport secretary Grant Shapps has come under fire from opposition politicians and unions for reportedly saying that franchised operators should be ˜paid when they run trains on time™. He was being interviewed in the wake of an ORR announcement yesterday that a new punctuality measurement will no longer allow trains to be five or ten minutes late at their final destinations and yet still be considered ˜on time™. Instead, the margin for lateness will be just 60 seconds. Mr Shapps was asked whether giving franchises incentives to be punctual meant that they could lose their contracts for poor...

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• German government agrees £48bn climate policy package as 500 protests held across country … will see the central European nation emitting the same … charge for carbon emissions from transport and heating fuels. The … investing more in low-emission rail travel, including by reducing … margin. The country’s transport sector in particular had failed …
• Millions of passengers suffer dreadful service as a THIRD of all UK's trains fail to run on time … in April this year. Passenger watchdog Transport Focus said … executive Anthony Smith said passengers’ biggest priority is punctuality … minute of schedule.  Heathrow Airport’s Express shuttle was … data - the most transparent measure of any railway in Europe …