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Wednesday, 24 June 2020
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- Train travels wrong way down London Tube trackTwo trains nearly crash when one travels in the wrong direction on a London Underground track.
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- London train going wrong way stops metres away from head-on crashSection of Metropolitan line left damaged by incident, though no casualties reported
- Invest in key infrastructure now to create over 1m jobs, urges TUC'Investing in infrastructure now... will stop the devastation of mass unemployment,' says Trades Union Congress
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- The nine abandoned train lines we want to see reopenThese nine stations were axed in the 60s in the infamous Beeching cuts
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
- Thousands of hours in delays to be saved as UK’s first mainline digital railway introducedThe East Coast Main Line is set to become Britains first mainline digital rail link with 350 million of new investment to install state-of-the art electronic signalling designed to cut journey times and slash delays. This huge cash injection on top of 1.2 billion already earmarked to upgrade one of the countrys most important rail arteries will fund the replacement of conventional signalling with a digital system that allows trains to talk to the track. This will smooth the flow of trains, make journeys safer and reduce signal failures that every ye...
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