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Tuesday, 14 September 2021

BBC News

• Train operator Greater Anglia reinstates some servicesGreater Anglia is reintroducing a full timetable on some services and adding additional trains on others from Monday.
• Metrolink strikes to hit Manchester sporting eventsA large majority of tram drivers vote against a 1% pay offer they describe as

Financial Times

• Kansas City Southern accepts $27bn offer from Canadian Pacific Deal would create first railway spanning Canada, the US and Mexico after long bidding war

The Telegraph

• Heathrow rail and Tube links to be cut off on Boxing Day [Subscription]Passengers face travel chaos on one of the airport's busiest days of the year - but rail bosses say the timing of the works "makes sense"

Birmingham Post

• Metrolink tram drivers vote 'overwhelmingly' to strike over pay disputeUnite has warned that more strikes could also be announced
• Barry railway station attracts coffee company Handlebar BaristaIt comes after investment at the station from Transport for Wales

Hull Daily Mail

• Fears Hull to Selby rail line electrification may never happenHull North MP Diana Johnson says ministers need to speed up decision-making over plans to electrify the rail line between Hull and Selby.

Other Regional Press

• HS2 Chiltern tunnel hit by legal challengeCampaigners have launched a legal challenge against the Environment Agency's approval of HS2's Chiltern Tunnel after contractors on the project admitted leaking 1,500m3 of bentonite slurry into a chalk aquifer.
• Improved rail services could be on the way for GloucestershireGLOUCESTERSHIRE could benefit from a number of improvements to rail services, according to the recent findings of a Network Rail study.
• Little sign of greater Transport for London control of suburban rail in government plans, Assembly hearsThe author of the review of services across the country appeared before the transport committee today
• Lancaster passengers could be faced with travelling to Preston and then catching a high-speed train to London, a cabinet report states

New Civil Engineer

• Revealed: 32 HS2 contracts worth £4.8bn to be let in next two yearsContractors will have plenty of work to bid for on High Speed 2 (HS2) in the coming years, with 32 contracts worth around £4.8bn included within the government's National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline, published yesterday.
• Government reveals £650bn construction pipelineThe government has set out how £650bn of public and private cash will be invested infrastructure projects across the country over the next decade in its new National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline.
• Construction bosses warn of ‘devastating impact’ of scrapping HS2 link to LeedsConstruction bosses have warned prime minister Boris Johnson that cancelling the eastern leg of the £100bn High Speed 2 (HS2) scheme would have a “devastating” effect on the industry.

Railnews

• RMT stages Waterloo protest over South Western changes MONDAY BRIEFING: RMT stages Waterloo protest over South Western changes ++ HS2 celebrates employment 'landmark' ahead of Parliamentary debate ++
• Metrolink tram drivers to strike after 'pitiful' pay offerTram drivers in Manchester are set to strike on 25 and 26 September, after 97 per cent voted in favour of walkouts in protest at what their union Unite has described as a 'pitiful' pay offer.