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Friday, 26 February 2021

BBC News

• Get used to fewer trains, says rail bodyAround 10% fewer train services should run once the country opens up again, compared to the pre-pandemic timetable, the chairman of Network Rail has said.
• HS2 protest: Swampy and two other activists leave Euston tunnelThe protester, who left with two others, spent 30 days in the tunnel under Euston Square Gardens.

The Guardian

• Network Rail chair says weekend engineering works may soon endThe pain of holiday weekend rail engineering works may soon be over, a top UK rail executive has signalled, as leisure passengers grow to rival the weekday commuter.

Birmingham Post

• New methods to appraise rail investment aims to help with levelling upSir Peter Hendry has been tasked by the Prime Minister to look at how to improve transport connectivity across the nations of the union

The York Press

• RAIL HERITAGE: the unique buildings at York Central that define city's railway pastAFTER years of discussion and debate, work is finally beginning on the transformation of York Central – the huge, 178-acre brownfield site behind York Railway Station.

New Civil Engineer

• ‘At risk’ Elizabeth line station restored to former gloryHanwell station will be removed from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register, following a major renovation by Transport for London (TfL).
• ‘At risk’ Elizabeth line station restored to former gloryHanwell station will be removed from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register, following a major renovation by Transport for London (TfL).
• Last chance to have say on Crossrail extension to EbbsfleetA public consultation on extending Crossrail to Ebbsfleet comes to a close today (26 February).

Rail Magazine

• Williams reform package in White Paper “as soon as possible”The long-awaited publication of the Government-commissioned Williams Review will be essential to the rail industry’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Railnews

• Politicians clash over Transport for the North funding The Prime Minister has come under fire over an alleged funding cut for Transport for the North. Board papers published by TfN said that a letter from the Department for Transport had revealed that TfN™s core funding would be reduced by 40 per cent in 2021-22 to £6 million. But when Boris Johnson was confronted by a Parliamentary question about the figures, he responded that there was ˜no such cut™, continuing: ˜We intend to invest massively in Northern Powerhouse Rail, in railways in the North, and across the entire country.™ Labour said: ˜Either the Prime Minister thinks he can lie with impu...