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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has claimed the pandemic has provided the government the chance to build a 'different type of railway'.
Thursday, 25 June 2020
BBC News
- Furloughed Eurostar staff become French teachersTrain staff, including drivers, volunteer in the lockdown to help schools teach French online.
Mail Online
- Britain's railways will be 'renationalised' using emergency coronavirus measuresTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has claimed the pandemic has provided the government the chance to build a 'different type of railway'.
Birmingham Post
- Shortlist revealed to build new HS2 station in BirminghamTrio of bidders will now be invited to tender for the £570m contract to build the first of four new stations planned for phase one of high-speed line
Other Regional Press
- Warning as number of near-misses and trespassing on train tracks risesThe number of near-misses and trespassing incidents on railway tracks has risen sharply, according to the Office of Rail and Road.
- New railway tech will slash diesel emissions from trainsSOUTH Western Railway says it has completed a 'revolutionary trial of new technology' that will reduce harmful emissions from diesel trains by more than 90 per cent.
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
- Safeguarding directions for High Speed 2 Phase 2aStatement on the progress of the Phase 2a Bill through Parliament and publication of revised safeguarding directions for the whole of the Phase 2a route. By Andrew Stephenson MP. Motions to revive the High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) Bill, known as the Phase 2a Bill, have now been passed in each House, and the Bill was re-introduced on Tuesday 3 March. I look forward to the progression of the Bill as it nears its final stages. I am today publishing revised safeguarding directions for the whole of the Phase 2a route. These safeguarding directions reflect the amendments (and there...
Railnews
- Shapps gives green light to National Rail concessions Transport secretary Grant Shapps has given the clearest indication yet that the old style train operating franchises will not be revived after the pandemic.
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- How realistic is electrification? There is a movement towards adoption of electric propulsion on the roads and railways – but it may not be the best way forward Network Rail and others have expressed the view that wider electrification of the railway network should be pursued. This is despite several curtailed schemes and a longstanding history of never achieving electrification on the scale achieved by other national railway networks. The current compromise of bi- and tri-mode trains overcomes the problem to some extent but the goal of comprehensive routes continues to elude. The Midland Main Line s...
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