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Monday, 25 May 2020

Government

• Transport Secretary announces new measures to “keep passengers safe now and level up for the future”Further funding to protect and increase transport services, level up infrastructure and regenerate local economies after coronavirus (COVID-19) has been announced by the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps

ITV News

• Mayor of Greater Manchester welcomes investment in metrolinkThe Mayor of Greater Manchester has welcomed additional funding for public transport in the region.

Times Online

• City centres, deserted during the pandemic, may never be the same [subscription]ecessions are usually a catalyst for change and the sharp economic downturn triggered by Covid-19 is bound to turn some things around. Take big cities, long considered as the engine of regional growth, bringing together talent, capital and ideas to create vibrant centres: what role will they play in a post-Covid world?

Bristol Live

• Graphic artist caused £4,000 damage to trainsDon Midasoni, AKA Joshua Dent, travelled from Bristol to Wales twice to carry out the damage

Manchester Evening News

• Railway between Bury and Rochdale could be restored after Whitehall backs plansThe government has announced plans to spend £500,000 developing a proposal explaining why reinstating the route would be worthwhile.

Yorkshire Post

• Beeching-axed lines in Sheffield and Craven could re-open after new funding pledgeTWO Yorkshire rail lines closed following the sweeping Beeching cuts of the 1960s could be reinstated after the Government announced it would fund the development of re-opening plans.

Blackpool Gazette

• Blackpool and Fleetwood in new Government transport funding announcementBlackpool has been allocated a £520,000 grant by the Government as part of a major investment programme unveiled by the Department of Transport today.

Other Regional Press

• 'The time is right' to reopen Newport railway line as work continues on innovation parkWork is continuing on the high-tech Newport Innovation Park under the lockdown.
• Bid to reopen Wellington Station given £50,000 backing by GovernmentA BID to reopen the railway station in Wellington has been given the go ahead, the Government has announced.
• Leicester to Burton Ivanhoe railway line re-opening takes a step forwardThe potential re-opening of the Leicester-to-Burton railway line, via Coalville and Ashby, as a passenger route has moved a step closer.

Rail Advent

• Northern City line transformed thanks to Network Rail and Great Northern If you need to travel to or from Moorgate Station, you can now enjoy a smarter, cleaner and brighter route.

Other News Sources

• Trains could soon be running to this Stoke-on-Trent railway station - fifty-four years after it shutThe station, off George Avenue, was closed down in 1966 as part of the infamous Beeching cuts, and today there is little evidence it existed at all.