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Thursday, 25 March 2021

Senedd Cymru

• £9m boost for North Wales MetroSchemes set to benefit include over £1m to improve rail, journey times between Wrexham and Liverpool.  £1.5m is provided towards the new integrated station at Shotton, and £670,000 towards the development of Deeside Parkway.  £900,000 is allocated towards a study of the North Wales Coast mainline, with a view to improve journey times on certain services.

Network Rail

• Bristol economy set to get power up thanks to Bristol Temple Meads station improvementsBusinesses in Bristol will benefit from a £10.2m upgrade of Bristol Temple Meads station with much of the money set to be spent on local companies.
• Up, up and away: Easter lift for Warrington Bank Quay bridgesA giant crane will be used to upgrade bridges around Warrington Bank Quay station this Easter to make future rail journeys more reliable for passengers and freight.

Yorkshire Post

• A high speed rail line from Leeds to Manchester via Bradford will be seen as a far-sighted decision in 30 years, says Transport for the North chief executive Barry WhiteBuilding a new high speed rail line between Leeds and Manchester with a stop in Bradford city centre is something people would look back on in 30 years’ time as a “far-sighted decision”, according to one of the North’s leading transport figures.

Kent Online

• Medway Council planners say they cannot afford to build rail link between thousands of new homes on the Hoo Peninsula and StroodPlanners have admitted they do not have enough funding to create a rail link between the Hoo Peninsula and the Medway Towns.

Other Regional Press

• Wakefield MP asking Boris Johnson to back monorail dream for townThe £1 billion scheme 'would allow the city to brand itself as the crossroads of the kingdom'
• Multi-million pound new railway line for Gloucestershire 'will go ahead'Cirencester Community Railway want to restore a track from the Cotswolds town to Kemble, restoring a line cut in the Beeching Report
• Call for new tram route as London Underground extension plans stallSouth London leaders say they are looking at rolling out a new tram service after plans to extend the Bakerloo Line have stalled.
• Campaign to electrify new Oxford to Cambridge train tracks beginsCALLS to electrify the East-West Rail link planned between Oxford and Cambridge continue.
• Offices plan for north Derbyshire railway station left to rot for 40 yearsWingfield Station, which has been virtually untouched since it closed in 1967, had been named as one of the country’s most important ‘at risk’ buildings.

Train Operators

• New Greater Anglia trains on more new routesGreater Anglia’s rollout of brand-new trains has reached new routes today (Tuesday 23 March) starting with an early morning maiden passenger voyage from Clacton to London.

New Civil Engineer

• Jacobs appointed to develop West Yorkshire Mass Transit plansProposals for a new mass transit system in West Yorkshire are progressing with the appointment of Jacobs as lead consultant.
• How Network Rail is saving millions by using machine learningCost savings of up to £30M were identified on Network Rail’s Great Western project through use of machine learning and wider construction industry benefits are set to be unlocked by a new investment from a Google-owned business.

Rail Advent

• Sheffield station work complete with new flooring and new doors from East Midlands RailwayEast Midlands Railway has announced that it has installed new tiling on Sheffield station’s concourse, ready in time for passengers to be welcomed back when lockdown restrictions are eased.

Other News Sources

• Coventry Very Light Rail project prepares for vehicle testingTHE Coventry Very Light Rail (VLR) project, a partnership between Coventry City Council, WMG University of Warwick and Transport Design International (TDI), has announced that its VLR prototype is being prepared for track testing. 
• Lyon inaugurates T2 light rail extensionLYON public transport authority Systral inaugurated a new three-station extension to its T2 light rail line between Perrache mainline station and Hôtel de Région-Montrochet on March 24 at a ceremony attended by Systral president, Mr Bruno Bernard.
• ‘rail-5G’ to be rolled out on part of the South Western Railway networkevo-rail, part of FirstGroup, is launching ‘rail-5G’, the global first multi-gigabit communications service specifically designed for the railway.