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Tuesday, 21 November 2023

BBC News

• Belfast Transport Hub: New images show progress of central stationBelfast Grand Central Station, the new £200m bus and rail centre, is due to open late next year.

Times Online

• Meeting planned to stop ’nutty neighbours’ closing remote rail halt [subscription]A meeting has been called to find ways to reopen Scotland’s most remote railway station after it was closed by “nutty neighbours”.
• SNCF sued over lack of gender-neutral titles on French trains [subscription]French society is not ready for gender-neutral titles, according to the state rail operator SNCF, which is being sued for asking passengers to choose between

Railnews

• Report claims possible rethink over National Rail Contracts The government is said to be poised to reintroduce a degree of commercial freedom in National Rail Contracts, with the intention of allowing operators to increase profits. It has been reported that the owners of operators are urging the government to loosen the tight restrictions of the present contracts. These were introduced in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic which led to the conventional franchises being suspended in March 2020 and then cancelled in September. The need to attract more passengers and increase earnings was emphasised by transport secretary Mark Harper last week.