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Monday, 11 October 2021

Financial Times

• Letter: HS2 will leave constraints of Victorian rail behindFrom Professor Andrew McNaughton, Former Technical Director, HS2 Former Chief Engineer The HS2 Birmingham to Leeds/York phase was proposed by a Labour administration in 2010 but adopted, after thorough review by successor coalition and Conservative governments — a rare cross-party initiative. No amount of disruptive tinkering with the existing network would match HS2 in enabling economic growth, social equity and 2050 decarbonisation.

The Guardian

• Anti-HS2 protesters face eviction from Wendover campActivists, including veteran Swampy, barricade themselves inside tunnel at site in Buckinghamshire
• Ban UK domestic flights and subsidise rail travel, urges transport charityCampaign for Better Transport calls on government to end climate disaster of internal flights. Domestic flights should be banned and long-distance train fares subsidised, transport campaigners have urged, highlighting the relative environmental and financial costs of air and rail travel.The Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) called on ministers to outlaw internal UK flights if an equivalent train journey took less than five hours and to resist calls for any cut in air passenger duty.

The Telegraph

• Nationalised rail chiefs get inflation-busting pay rise [subscription]Executives on the DfT OLR Holdings board shared remuneration of £718,000 this year, a rise of 5.7pc on 2020. Ministers have been accused of hypocrisy after bosses at Britain’s nationalised rail operator were handed an inflation-busting pay rise despite ordinary rail workers being forced to endure a two-year freeze on wages.

Mail Online

• Fury as rail bosses' pay soars above inflation: Train chiefs spark anger with 6% wage rise Rail bosses behind LNER and Northern Rail networks shared £718,000 this year according to recent filed documents which represents an inflation-busting pay rise of six per cent.

Liverpool Echo

• Metro Mayor slams 'abandonment' of Liverpool's HS2 connectionThe scaled back proposals were leaked ahead of their announcement later this month

Manchester Evening News

• Government 'to block underground station at Piccadilly' in 'bare minimum' rail plan for the northThe much-anticipated plan will be published in the next two weeks, it is believed, but will be disappointing for Manchester, according to reports

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Trams could return to Aberdeen: City should not ‘be frightened of being innovative’Trams were once a common sight on the Castlegate

Yorkshire Post

• HS2 will transform North; it is not a vanity project – Yorkshire Post LettersTHANK you for your “HS2 a blow to level up” editorial comment (The Yorkshire Post, October 5). I found the report factual and rightly supportive of the benefits this new railway would bring to communities here in the North.

Bucks Free Press

• Wendover anti-HS2 camp eviction startsAnti-HS2 protesters who set up a resistance camp in Wendover say they are being evicted this morning.

Other Regional Press

• Petition for Grimstone station platform to be reinstatedA 500-SIGNATURE petition is calling for the reinstatement of the rail platform at Grimstone as a request stop.

New Civil Engineer

• Threading Paddington’s rail to Crossrail passenger link through a listed facadeKey to successful delivery of Crossrail’s £649M station at Paddington was a small but complex arch connecting the new structure with Brunel’s 1850s mainline terminus.
• Northern Line Extension engineers describe the impact of Grenfell on the projectGreater focus on fire risk within the Northern Line Extension called for a re-think on some elements of the project, according to engineers leading on the scheme.
• Former COP26 president calls for better transport links to UK airportsThe original president of COP26 Claire O’Neill has called for better transport links to be developed to connect into the UK’s airports.

Rail Advent

• Northern uses VR simulation game to improve accessibilityAn innovative Virtual Reality Simulation Game is now in the testing stages and will support disabled people to get better access when traveling with Northern.

Railnews

• RMT announces more ScotRail strikes MONDAY BRIEFING: RMT announces more ScotRail strikes ++

Other News Sources

• Performance improvement firm enters rail industry with six-figure contractsAberdeen-based STC INSISO has secured a six-figure contract with HS2 Euston, led by principal contractor Mace Dragados.
• Wheelchair user reviews train travel from Brighton to LondonA 70 YEAR old wheelchair user has told of the successes and failures of assisted travel at train stations.