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Tuesday, 06 October 2020

BBC News

• Covid: Train passengers left out of pocket by local lockdownsTrain customers have expressed their anger at being unable to get refunds for tickets they can no longer use because of UK coronavirus restrictions.
• Disused Weymouth railway line 'wiped out without goodbye'A 155-year-old railway line in Dorset is being "wiped out without a goodbye", a campaigner has said.

The Guardian

• Chalk streams and waterfalls: the natural wonders under threat from HS2 – in picturesHs2 threatens to carve up vast swathes of countryside, impacting its fragile ecosystem. Matt Writtle’s pictures of Chesham explore our delicate relationship with nature

The Independent

• East Coast main line: Eight months of disruption about to begin for train passengersProject aims to increase passenger capacity by 10,000 each day

Network Rail

• Barmouth Viaduct’s biggest ever refurbishment is underwayNetwork Rail’s £25m upgrade of Barmouth Viaduct will see the historic landmark protected for local people and visitors for generations to come

Birmingham Mail

• 'Railcard robbery' - Dismay over decision train pass discountCouncillor Richard Worrall slams decision not to extend the validity of Railcards for passengers unable to use them during Covid lockdown

Birmingham Post

• Calls for PM to back eastern leg of HS2Phase 2b of the rail project would run from Birmingham to Leeds, via new East Midlands station in Toton, Nottinghamshire

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Claim that Northern Powerhouse will be a 'pipe dream' if local HS2 leg does not emerge soonTHE head of a North of England pressure group has claimed the Government’s Northern Powerhouse vision could become a “pipedream” if HS2 does not reach Leeds in the coming years, as calls to make the scheme a reality intensify today.

Manchester Evening News

• All rail lines blocked between Manchester Victoria and Liverpool Lime StreetTrain services are disrupted between Manchester Victoria and Liverpool Lime Street.

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Why Leeds and Yorkshire now need HS2 more than ever - Judith BlakeAS a country we face arguably our greatest challenges since the Second World War – a second wave of Covid-19 while, at the same time, doing everything we can to safeguard jobs and our economy.

East Anglian Daily Times

• Rail engineers complete project to replace four miles of Suffolk trackNetwork Rail engineers have replace four miles of track between Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds during a 10-week period of work on the line over the summer.

Other Regional Press

• 500 Somerset jobs after HS2 contract awardedA brand new factory will be built in Somerset to manufacture concrete components for the railway track of the ongoing large-scale HS2 project.
• Rail engineers complete project to replace four miles of Suffolk trackNetwork Rail engineers have replace four miles of track between Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds during a 10-week period of work on the line over the summer.
• London Covid: How TfL is making sure London Underground and buses are coronavirus freeTransport for London has told people using Tubes and buses in the capital that the "system is safe" in a bid to increase passenger confidence in using public transport again.

Business Live

• North Wales rail transformation on UK transport review list after 'decades of under-investment’UK Government plan to boost transport infrastructure across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Prime Minister launches review to boost connections across the UKFaster road and rail links to Scotland, upgrades to Welsh railways and new connections between Great Britain and Northern Ireland are among the range of potential projects to be considered in first of a kind study into improving transport infrastructure across the United Kingdom, launched by the Prime Minister

New Civil Engineer

• Industry welcomes rail minister decarbonisation commitmentThe Railway Industry Association (RIA) has welcomed rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris’ statement at yesterday's Conservative Party Conference that he is “deadly serious” about the decarbonisation of the rail network.

Rail Technology Magazine

• Siemens Energy and Siemens Mobility join together to develop hydrogen mobilitySiemens Mobility and Siemens Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop and offer hydrogen systems for trains.

Railnews

• Monday essay: facts and fancies THE review of the railway industry which has been led by Keith Williams is still being kept behind closed doors. Sim Harris argues that it is time to publish what he has to say.

Other News Sources

• Nigel Holness appointed as new Managing Director for MTR Elizabeth LineNigel Holness brings with him over 30 years’ rail industry experience and has worked at Board and senior executive level in a range of roles including Interim Managing Director for London Underground and Programme Director and Deputy Managing Director at MTR Crossrail (now MTR Elizabeth Line).
• London Theme Park developers could fund Crossrail extension to EbbsfleetPlans to extend Crossrail to Ebbsfleet in Kent could rest on whether the proposed £3.5bn London Resort Theme Park gets the go ahead.
• This is why the footbridge at a village railway station is missingThe footbridge at a village railway station has been take away to be renovated before being returned.
• Rail Interview: Rail Minister and Transport Committee Chair set out their views on rail policyToday, the Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris MP and Transport Committee Chair Huw Merriman MP took part in two separate interviews with Sunday Times Transport Editor Nicholas Hellen, as part of the online Conservative Party Conference.
• New Managing Director appointed for Unipart Rail & Unipart Manufacturing GroupUnipart Group, the leading independent manufacturing, logistics and consultancy group, has announced the appointment of Neil Walker as the Managing Director of Unipart Rail and Unipart Manufacturing Group.