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Saturday, 31 July 2021

The Guardian

• Depleted and unwanted, HS2 hurtles on as Johnson’s £100bn vanity project | Simon JenkinsIt has cost the taxpayer billions without a mile of track being laid – and it won’t even go north of CreweBritain’s new high-speed railway will not – repeat: not – get to the north of England. It will go back and forth from London to the Midlands and its chief beneficiaries will be London commuters. All else is political spin.This became certain last week as the government’s internal major projects authority declared phase two of the HS2 project, to Manchester and Leeds, effectively dead. While the already-started London-to-Birmingham stretch is still marked at “amber/redâ€� for “successful deli...

Mail Online

• HS2's eastern link hits the buffers as the line to Leeds is shelved amid soaring costsMinisters have ordered HS2 Limited to halt all planning work on the Eastern leg and focus solely on the Western route to Manchester.

Birmingham Post

• Arup appointed to move island of Ireland rail review forwardThe planning experts will look into rejuvenating the rail network and feasibility of high speed services

London Evening Standard

• Talks aimed at averting Tube driver strikes adjourned until next weekTalks aimed at averting strikes by London Underground drivers have been adjourned until next week.

Other Regional Press

• London TFL: Four-day strike set to cause 'severe disruption'Train passengers and commuters are being warned of
• Major work to start on Millbrook Station footbridgeMAJOR works to improve a railway footbridge are scheduled to take place in Southampton this weekend.
• Kent Crossrail extension whittled down to three choicesA shortlist of options for extending the Elizabeth line into Kent has been narrowed down to three choices with the public urged to have their say.

C.N.N.

• Multiple people injured after Boston transit trains collideMultiple people were reported injured Friday after the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority said two trains collided with one another on the Commonwealth Avenue rail line in Boston.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• EWR Co launches engagement for industry first ‘Enterprise Partner’ modelThe East West Railway Company (EWR Co) has launched a market engagement exercise on a new ‘Enterprise Partner’ model to support the company in the development and launch of the new Oxford to Cambridge railway service.   EWR Co aims to test the market’s appetite to deliver train operations and asset management, and support the strategic leadership of the project at an early stage and through the launch phase of the railway.    Simon Blanchflower CBE, Chief Executive of East West Railway Company said: “The Enterprise Partner model we have been developing ov...

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