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Wednesday, 17 February 2021

Times Online

• Covid in Scotland: Rail tickets to adjust for new normal [subscription]ScotRail is working on overhauling its ticketing options as it expects post-pandemic travel patterns to be dramatically altered.

Conservative Party

• Paul Howell and Heather Wheeler: Full HS2 is critical to our election commitment to rebalance the economyPaul Howell is the MP for Sedgefield and Heather Wheeler is the MP for South Derbyshire.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Conwy village cut off from its own train station - after £1m spent revamping itDwr Cymru/Welsh Water are closing the bridge linking Dolgarrog to the railway station

London Evening Standard

• Does Boris really want to be the Prime Minister who let TfL collapse?Upminster and Uxbridge began life as distant villages in separate counties. Today they’re London suburbs, separated by 30 miles of concrete and brick. The thing that melded such distant places into a single city was the rise of commuting, and the public transport system that allowed it. There is a reason why certain nerdy corners of the internet use Tube map content as clickbait, or why this newspaper runs a Tube quiz every day: the network is the thing that connects all Londoners. There is an extent to which London is its transport system.

Carlisle News & Star

• Network Rail replace Cumbrian road bridge near AspatriaA CONSTRUCTION operation is under way to replace a railway bridge on one of Cumbria’s most scenic routes.

Other Regional Press

• Kirklees land-swap deal to go ahead - despite fears over housing plansIt will aid the delivery of the £2.9bn Transpennine Rail upgrade
• Mature trees by Walthamstow train tracks 'obliterated'People living beside railway lines have criticised Network Rail for cutting down mature trees to prevent service disruptions.
• Calls for reintroduction of HS2 link through High LeghCALLS have been made to ‘reintroduce’ a section of HS2 railway which would run through High Legh.

New Civil Engineer

• Edinburgh tram extension tabled by councilPlans for an extension to Edinburgh’s tram network have been put forward by Edinburgh City Council.

Railnews

• Concern grows over Northern Powerhouse Rail A delay in publishing the Department for Transport™s Integrated Rail Plan is causing more concern at Transport for the North, whose board is set to be told that improvements to the region™s rail services are also being affected by the uncertainty.

Other News Sources

• Oyster-style ticketing ‘essential’ for MidlandsCould be up and running in some areas as soon as 2022, and implemented region-wide by 2024, if the chancellor provides funding   ‘Swift’ in the West Midlands is the UK’s second biggest public transport payment system after London’s Oyster scheme   MPs have urged the government to invest in a Midlands-wide ‘tap and cap’ smart ticketing system for public transport, to boost passenger numbers, convenience and safety post-Covid-19. New research by strategic regional transport body Midlands Connect, which helped to develop the plans, showed that nine out of ten people surveyed supported t...
• Network Rail reveals ‘great support’ for East Linton railway station plansNETWORK Rail has said there is ‘great local support’ for its plans to bring a railway station to East Linton.
• TSSA Raises Concerns Over Government Transpennine CommitmentTSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has raised what he described as "real concerns" after Network Rail (NR) said it does not have the funds required to electrify two new stretches of the Transpennine Route, despite a promise from the Government.
• Make East West Rail electric and not diesel, Lib Dems urgeThe Liberal Democrats candidate for Mayor of Cambridge and Peterborough has launched a campaign to stop diesel trains being used on the new East West Rail line.