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Saturday, 20 February 2021

The Guardian

• A tunnel linking Scotland and Northern Ireland? Fantasy has replaced British modesty | Ian JackThe proposed route stirs memories of a lost, romantic train journey and is stoking the imaginations of politiciansGalloway, as John Buchan wrote in The Thirty-Nine Steps, is 'the nearest wild part of Scotland', by which he meant the nearest to England, and in this particular context to the London railway terminus of St Pancras, where his hero, Richard Hannay, boards a train on a morning some time before the first world war, a fugitive from a foreign enemy and English law. He heads north, and changes at Dumfries to the slow Galloway train that “rumbled slowly into a land of little wooded glens ...

Mail Online

• Part of tunnel at Euston HS2 protest COLLAPSES on bailiff in latest eviction attemptThe protesters, who have been underground for more than three weeks, are trying to stop HS2's plans to replace the green space outside Euston station in central London with a temporary taxi rank.

London Evening Standard

• HS2 wins legal ruling to force protesters out of Euston Square GardensHS2's lawyers have won an injunction to force protesters out of tunnels dug beneath Euston Square Gardens.

Northern Echo

• Full steam ahead for major North Yorkshire Moors Railway projectA HERITAGE railway line has received almost £300,000 to restart a wide-ranging project paused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The York Press

• £31 million railway station plans put to the public in Selby RESIDENTS have the chance to have a say on plans to improve the railway stations in their towns.

Railnews

• RMT strike ballot is 'wrong', says ScotRail A strike ballot of ScotRail conductors has been launched by the RMT in a dispute over pay, but the company has condemned the vote, saying that such a move 'is wrong for staff at a time of financial crisis for the railway'.