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Saturday, 11 June 2022

BBC News

• Croydon tram crash: TfL to admit to failings over fatal derailmentSeven passengers died and 61 were injured when a tram derailed in south London in 2016.
• ScotRail to resume late weekday trains after pay breakthroughScotRail has added later services from Monday as the dispute with drivers moves towards resolution.
• Train drivers to join other rail workers on strikeAslef union members will walkout over over pay after RMT announced 40,000 members would strike.
• Rail strikes and flight cancellations: Are UK travellers heading for a summer of misery?After two years of Covid rules, airline disruption and rail strikes risk overshadowing the summer.

The Herald

• Neil Mackay: ScotRail pay offer is first victory against our corrupt systemARE we supposed to look at the disastrous economic system that our governments have created over the last decades and support it? Fight for it? Defend it? Or should we rather look at what our politicians have done and want to tear it down brick by brick?

Times Online

• More rail strikes will cripple Scotland’s recovery, economists warn [subscription]Further rail strikes across Scotland will strip millions of pounds from the economy, experts predict, as council officials demand that SNP ministers intervene on a pay dispute to ensure schools can reopen in August.
• More rail strikes will cripple Scotland’s recovery, economists warn [subscription]Further rail strikes across Scotland will strip millions of pounds from the economy, experts predict, as council officials demand that SNP ministers intervene on a pay dispute to ensure schools can reopen in August.
• Ministers urged to stop big new rise in rail fares [subscription]Rail passengers face fare increases of more than 11 per cent next year unless the government changes its policy, an industry watchdog has warned.

City AM

• Work starts on unique HS2 tunnel that will blend railway into local landscape in first of its kind in UKHS2 said today work has begun on the construction of an innovative green tunnel designed to blend the railway into the landscape. The one-and-a-half-mile-long structure in Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, is being built on the surface of the ground to speed up the process. More than 5,000 concrete segments made in a factory in Derbyshire will [...] The post Work starts on unique HS2 tunnel that will blend railway into local landscape in first of its kind in UK appeared first on CityAM.

Daily Record

• ScotRail to run more later trains in hope for driver pay dispute resolutionSome 700 services disappeared from the newly-nationalised operator as members of the Aslef union refused to work rest days.

Mail Online

• Half of RMT workers set to strike received pay rises and bonuses for two of the past three yearsAbout 20,000 RMT staff at Network Rail got salary increases of 3.2 per cent and 2.1 per cent in 2019 and 2020 respectively, and workers pocketed £650 bonuses both years.
• Train services cancelled because staff won't work when it's sunny, GUY ADAMS investigatesGUY ADAMS:The scene is rush-hour in Birmingham. Every few minutes, uniformed railway workers emerge from a modern building opposite the entrance to New Street station.
• Britain faces MONTHS of rail strikes as union announces MORE workers will be given vote on walkoutsThe proposed industrial action by the TSSA, led by Manuel Cortes, would mean that disruption on Britain's rail network planned for the end of June would be extended through the summer.

Birmingham Post

• Strike ballots planned at CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway and West Midlands TrainsUnion boss: 'Unless these demands are met, we could be seeing a summer of discontent across our railway'

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Trams hit with problems just one day after services resumedTram services suffered a temporary setback this afternoon when a

Railnews

• Growing threat of complete rail stoppages this summer The government’s plans to run about a fifth of normal train services during the RMT strike days this month are being threatened by action being taken by the other rail unions, and it is now possible that the system will come to a complete halt.