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Monday, 04 October 2021

Financial Times

• Shapps signals government rethink on HS2 with eastern leg at riskTransport secretary says ministers cannot ‘blindly follow’ blueprint and endorses newer rail schemes

The Telegraph

• Eurostar rekindles Continental merger as it increases rail services [subscription]Eurostar is set to merge with a French-Belgian rail firm by the end of the year after being shunned by UK ministers following pleas for a bailout.

Times Online

• Low-emission shuttle train offers hope of branch lines return [subscription]A new low-emission, lightweight train to be unveiled this week at the birthplace of the industrial revolution could help in the government’s plans to reopen some branch lines shut in the Beeching cuts in the Sixties.
• Gove will fail unless he listens on levelling up - Andy Street [Subscription]If I were given a pound for every time levelling up were to be mentioned this week, I suspect I would be leaving Manchester a far wealthier man.

City AM

• Eurostar faces £400m losses after pandemic swerves passenger numbers off trackEurostar has reported more than £400m pandemic-induced losses and cautioned it faces “material uncertainties” in the future, after Covid travel The post Eurostar faces £400m losses after pandemic swerves passenger numbers off track appeared first on CityAM.

Birmingham Mail

• Mayor Andy Street warns HS2 high speed rail line must be built in full, on eve of Tory conferenceBoris Johnson's Government must confirm that HS2 will be built in full, including the eastern leg to Yorkshire, West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says.
• Grant Shapps says 'a lot has changed' in hint that eastern leg of HS2 will be delayedTransport Secretary Grant Shapps pointed out that new rail schemes were now planned which weren't part of the original HS2 proposals

Bristol Live

• Network Rail warns of 'noisy' works along Bristol track until NovemberMost of it will be carried out in the early hours of the morning

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• £800,000 to make Metros, buses and parks in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear safer following Sarah Everard murderPlans to spend £800,000 to make parks and public transport safer for women have today been revealed.

Yorkshire Post

• More to be revealed on Northern Powerhouse Rail in 'next few days' Boris Johnson saysMinisters will reveal more about the Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) project in the “next few days” Boris Johnson has said, hailing the project as “fantastic” for the north.
• Grant Shapps refuses to be drawn on whether he is still committed to HS2 from Birmingham to LeedsTransport Secretary Grant Shapps refused to be drawn on whether he was still committed to the Eastern Leg of HS2, telling delegates at Conservative Party conference that “a lot has changed” since plans were first circulated.

Rail Advent

• Kent railway station benefits from a £2.5m project of improvementsNetwork Rail have completed a Ј2.5m project to refurbish the canopies at Orpington railway station.
• Tyne & Metro Flow project welcomed by community leadersA Ј100m scheme to dual sections of track on the Tyne & Wear Metro has been welcomed by community leaders.

The Business Desk

• College’s new rail training centre on trackA new rail training centre has been launch for people to gain the skills needed to build the region’s expanding tram and train networks.

Other News Sources

• Interview: London First’s John Dickie on transport, the office and ‘levelling up’The new chief executive of an influential business group has repeated his warnings against cuts to public transport and stressed the importance of the capital to national economic prosperity