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Friday, 10 June 2022

BBC News

• ScotRail agrees 5% pay deal with train drivers' unionAslef, the union representing the drivers, agrees a 5% pay deal after fresh negotiations with ScotRail.
• Train drivers to join other rail workers on strikeAslef union members will walkout over over pay after RMT announced 40,000 members would strike.

Department for Transport

• Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail: legislative changes to implement rail reformSeeks views on primary legislative changes required to effect rail reform as set out in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail.

The Guardian

• Rail managers could join strikes across network in BritainTSSA union ballots could lead to complete national shutdown by time of Commonwealth Games in JulyManagers and train drivers could join the strikes across the railway, potentially setting up a complete national shutdown by the time of the Commonwealth Games in July.

Times Online

• Drivers join rail strikes as ballots set to spreadCo-ordinated union action to increase disruption

City AM

• ‘Summer of discontent’ looms as THIRD rail union threatens to strike and plunge country into travel mayhemThe country has been plunged into further travel mayhem with rail drivers union TSSA set to join the train alongside RMT and Aslef. The organisation served notice to ballot hundreds of staff for strike action at Avanti West Coast, over pay, conditions and job security. Transport and Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) General Secretary Manuel Cortes [...] The post ‘Summer of discontent’ looms as THIRD rail union threatens to strike and plunge country into travel mayhem appeared first on CityAM.

Great British Railways Transition Team

• Developing a long-term strategy for rail (WISP)In May 2021, the government announced its plans for the biggest reform to the railway in three decades through the publication of the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail. The Plan for Rail commissioned a 30-year strategy for the railway, setting the strategic context and key priorities for the sector, which will be developed for Ministers by Great British Railways.

Liverpool Echo

• People's patience is really wearing thin with MerseyrailReduced timetables, disruption and an interminable wait for new trains are causing anger and frustration to boil over, writes Liam Thorp

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• The eight new North East railway lines that could transform our region's train services by 2035An upgrade strategy set to be signed off next week includes a raft of ambitious improvements including new Metro lines and a main line service to Newcastle International Airport

Other Regional Press

• HS2 'lied' about pledge not to close roads near CoventryIt's claimed HS2 has broken its promises in relation to the Burton Green section of the project

New Civil Engineer

• HS2 | Construction begins on first modular ‘green tunnel’HS2 Ltd has begun putting together its first ‘green tunnel’ at Chipping Warden in Northamptonshire.
• Procurement launched for largest rail electrification project in the worldPublic procurement has begun for the design and build of the energy subsystem for the 870km high-speed Rail Baltica project connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which will be the largest railway electrification project in the world.