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Tuesday, 14 June 2022

BBC News

• New station at Barking Riverside to open this summerA new London Overground station in east London will open this summer, Transport for London (TfL) has said.

The Guardian

• Go-Ahead accepts £650m takeover offer from Kinetic and GlobalviaOne of Britain’s biggest transport companies, the Go-Ahead Group, has accepted a £650m takeover bid from a consortium of the Australian bus operator Kinetic and the infrastructure specialists Globalvia.

City AM

• First Group optimistic of returning bus passenger volumes amid takeover offer rejectionTransport operator First Group has posted a £122.8m statutory operating profit from continuing operations while announcing a renewed national rail contract with the transport department for Great Western Railway.

Birmingham Post

• Concerns over planned 440 acre rail freight interchange in rural Leicestershire to be raised in ParliamentAlberto Costa: 'This is a gargantuan development that would concrete over beautiful South Leicestershire countryside'

Northern Echo

• LNER trains travelling in North East to get new lookTRAINS from London North Eastern Railway (LNER) travelling through the North East could look very different in the coming months after the rail operator unveiled a new and distinctive livery for its InterCity 225 fleet.

Wales Online

• How would you improve Wales' big event transport after another weekend of 'unacceptable' chaos?Debate has raged over the weekend after Welsh football fans experienced 'chaos' leaving Cardiff on Saturday night
• Trains operator asks some people not to use its services as fears grow of travel chaos for Tom Jones and Stereophonics stadium shows in CardiffComes to something when the people who run the trains ask you not to use them

Other Regional Press

• Warrington campaigners welcome HS2 Golborne Link scrapping“The cancellation of the Golborne Link of HS2 is vindication of everything we have been saying for more than a decade,” a spokesman for Stop HS2 North said.
• Static testing begins on Avanti West Coast’s new train fleetStatic testing has begun on Avanti West Coast’s new Hitachi Class 805 and 807 trains.

New Civil Engineer

• Bristol Temple Meads station receives £95M levelling up grant for upgradeBristol Temple Meads station and the area directly surrounding it will undergo a significant overhaul creating thousands of jobs and homes thanks to a £95M levelling up grant provided by the government.

Railway Gazette

• Cardiff Northwest Corridor tram-train report publishedUK: Proposals have been published for the development of a tram-train network to serve housing developments on the Northwest Corridor between Cardiff and Llantrisant.

Other News Sources

• West Midlands tram extension will not complete in time for Commonwealth GamesA tram extension in Wolverhampton, part of the West Midlands Metro extension, will not open in time for this summer's Commonwealth Games as previously planned.
• No room for Eurostar at Amsterdam CentralDUTCH environment minister, Ms Vivianne Heijnen, has told MPs that it would be “unacceptable” if Eurostar trains were unable to serve Amsterdam Central during station renovation work due to start in early 2024.