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Monday, 07 September 2020

BBC News

• Covid-19: How to travel safely on the bus, train and subwayApart from the obvious precautions, what can you do to reduce your risk of catching or spreading the coronavirus on public transport?

ITV News

• Five years since first passengers travelled on Borders RailwayThe £294 million pound line, connecting Tweedbank to Edinburgh, was the longest domestic line to be built in the UK in a century.

The Guardian

• UK rail operators plan to restore 90% of train servicesMove follows government pressure to get more commuters back to their offices and workplaces. Train operators will restore more services on Monday as the government seeks to encourage Britain's office workers back to their desks.About 90% of the usual schedule will be operating after the timetable change, and up to 98% of pre-pandemic commuter services in the south-east, although some of the remaining suspended train services are now unlikely to come back until December.

Times Online

• The dirty secret behind your ‘green’ electric car [subscription]The automotive industry is driving growing demand for nickel, critical for batteries, despite the pollution that production can cause

City AM

• Rail firms cut services by 10 per cent due to coronavirusRail services will reportedly face a 10 per cent cut this autumn due to the coronavirus pandemic, with evening and weekend trains to be the hardest hit.

i News

• Train timetables reduced as companies face lack of commutersAutumn timetables will see some lines lose up to 35 per cent of services, with weekend and evening trains likely to be hardest hit

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Morpeth Railway Station set for official opening after £2.3 million restorationThe town's station is now home to a café while a modern ticket office has been created with a guard's van-style taxi office in the station forecourt.

Northern Echo

• Hitachi Rail celebrates five years of train building in County DurhamA TRAIN builder has marked five years since officially opening its manufacturing factory in County Durham.

Other Regional Press

• Major change to train services from today including end to refund ruleTimetables were slashed in March as the virus led to a reduction in available railway workers and demand for travel.
• NO MONDAY MORNING TRAIN SERVICE DUE TO VANDALISMIsland Line’s service between Ryde and Shanklin has been suspended this morning (Monday) due to mindless vandalism.

New Civil Engineer

• Hammersmith Bridge at risk of ‘catastrophic failure’ without urgent repairsHammersmith Bridge is at risk of a collapsing unless funding can be secured to carry out “urgent” stabilisation work.
• Kings Cross rail works complete on £1.2bn East Coast UpgradeVital work was undertaken in and around London King’s Cross this weekend as part of Network Rail’s £1.2bn East Coast Upgrade.

Rail Business Daily

• LNER’s last new Azuma leaves the depot to join the fleetThey have replaced the existing fleet of 45 trains which run along the 940 miles of track between Scotland, North East England, Yorkshire, the East Midlands and London.