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Friday, 10 July 2020

BBC News

• South Wales Metro: Train disruption as rail upgrade beginsPassengers on some lines will switch to buses until December to allow tracks to be upgraded.
• Coronavirus: Snowdon Mountain Railway to reopen after lockdownAll aboard as the train up Wales' highest peak will resume on Friday - but it won't go to the top.

Financial Times

• ONS signals rail nationalisation with debt sheet moveWatchdog considers technical reclassification as sector grapples with pandemic disruption

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• £2m funding to draw up mass transit plan REPRESENTATIVES of five different Council's have agreed to spend £2 million to help draw up plans for a new West Yorkshire mass transit system.

Other Regional Press

• Piccadilly line upgrade on hold amid coronavirus pandemic A Piccadilly line upgrade that would allow more trains on the line has been paused because of strain on Transport for London’s (TfL) budget amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Mayor has confirmed.

Rail Technology Magazine

• New possible Eurostar direct travel from Amsterdam to London Following new agreements being signed earlier this week (July 7th) a direct high-speed train service from Amsterdam and London could be a possibility later this year. In order for these services to operate, existing agreements between the UK, France and Belgium signed in 1993 have been changed...
• Network Rail seeking contractor for Forth Bridge walk Network Rail are currently looking to appoint a main contractor to design and build the new Forth Bridge Experience. Budding partners are being asked to submit their interest before Network Rail selects firms to tender for the project later in the summer. A main contractor is expected to be...
• South Wales Metro railway works imminent Transformational works on railway lines through South Wales set to begin on the 3rd of August. As part of Transport for Wales’ (TfW) three-quarters-of-a-billion-pound investment in Metro, which included £164 million of European Regional Development Funding through the Welsh...

Other News Sources

• Alstom offers factory sale in return for Bombardier merger approvalFrance’s TGV high-speed train maker Alstom on Thursday (9 July) offered to sell a French rail factory and make other concessions to win European Commission approval for its planned purchase of Bombardier Inc’s transportation business.

EIN News Subscription

• ‘Hospital’ Bullet Trains for Mass Evacuations Reportedly Floated by Germany as EU Military Project … #39;s high-speed rail system based on the French … , are mulling developing a railway version of the French MedEvac … country, was equipped to transport coronavirus patients from the country … presidency of the EU Council, referred to European solidarity as …
• Work on the South Wales Metro rail project to start next month … consists of £164m from the European Union, £445m from the Welsh … design work across the valley railway lines and are now … next phase and transforming the railway lines, starting on 3 … our transformational work on Transport for Wales’ rail network. "This …