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Friday, 22 January 2021

London Evening Standard

• Don’t use your Oyster card if you want to avoid the £20 auto top-up, says TfL chiefLondon’s transport commissioner has advised passengers to stop using Oyster cards to avoid incurring hefty automatic top-ups during the pandemic.

Other Regional Press

• Inside the new spacious £30m Halifax train station Calderdale Council is working with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority on the transformation

New Civil Engineer

• Extra land safeguarded at HS2’s Leeds stationAdditional land has been safeguarded next to Leeds station ahead of construction of High Speed 2 (HS2) and Northern Powerhouse Rail.
• £1bn Cardiff Crossrail backed in rail plan to tackle M4 congestionThe Welsh Government has backed a raft of recommendations to tackle congestion on the M4. Recommendations include a £1bn light rail proposal dubbed “Cardiff Crossrail”, upgrading the South Wales Main Line and building six new stations between Cardiff and the River Severn.

Rail Magazine

• Heaton-Harris: fare payers should make “fair contribution”Government recognises concerns regarding the planned fares rise in March, but has reiterated its belief that fare payers should make a “fair contribution” in the wake of the financial support the railway has received over the past ten months.

Rail Technology Magazine

• P.P O’Connor Group aids to develop HS2’s new Birmingham stationManchester-based civil engineering consultants P.P O’Connor Group has joined the list of firms supporting construction of UK’s new railway, High Speed Two (HS2).

Railnews

• £1.7 billion boost for Bombardier in DerbyA CONSORTIUM led by Bombardier Transportation has confirmed a deal with the Egyptian Government to build two new monorails, with the support of a guarantee from the British government which is worth £1.7 billion.

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• Gender imbalance still ‘our biggest challenge’, says Brighton and Hove bossGender balance remains the coach and bus industry’s biggest challenge in terms of scale, according to Managing Director of Brighton and Hove Metrobus Martin Harris.

Other News Sources

• London Underground weekend closures: The tube lines and overground shut on January 23 and 24Weekend number three of the third English national lockdown and millions are still working from home.
• Final bill to keep Newmarket's Weatherby rail crossing open climbs to £41kThe final cost of the fight to try to keep Newmarket’s Weatherby rail crossing open has climbed to more than £40,000.
• STUDY EXPLORING OPTIONS FOR EXPANDING THE ISLE OF WIGHT’S RAILWAY BEGINSWork has started on a project to study the Isle of Wight’s railways to see how they could meet future transport needs, which includes the possibility of running trains into Ventnor and Newport once again.
• UK grants $2.3bn to Bombardier rail in export fundingThe UK Government has granted $2.3bn to Bombardier’s train unit in export funding, which will support an English plant ahead of its pending merger with French train manufacturer Alstom.
• UK’s Heathrow Express introduces first new fleet since 1998The UK's Heathrow Express has introduced a newly renovated fleet of a dozen Class 387 trains, marking the first new fleet since the launch of the service in 1998.