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Saturday, 10 February 2024

BBC News

• New electric train fleet unveiledWest Midlands Railway's longer trains will run from Wolverhampton to Birmingham.

Financial Times

• Ministers cut performance targets for biggest UK rail franchiseShift comes after Govia Thameslink failed on most measures in first year of its contract

The Herald

• Glasgow to Fort William trains to be off for 9 days for worksA section of the West Highland Line will close for nine days next month, affecting trains between Glasgow and Fort William and Mallaig.

City AM

• Row erupts over Thameslink bonuses after performance targets lowered Thameslink's performance targets were downgraded across nearly every category from last year. The targets are set by the government's department for transport.

Cambridge News

• Look back at Cambridgeshire's lost railway stations over the yearsWhen one station closed, local people dressed up as mourners in protest

Railnews

• GWR battery train test runs to start this spring The long-running battery train project on Great Western Railway is set to move forward this spring, when trial operation begins on a branch line in west London. GWR took over the development of battery units based on former London Underground trains when their innovator Vivarail went into administration at the end of 2022. The tests on the Greenford branch will involve a short length of conductor rail at West Ealing station which is used to charge the batteries and is only live when a train is over it.