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Sunday, 14 April 2024

The Guardian

• Government still buying properties along HS2 route - despite scrapping schemeFollowing Rishi Sunak's decision to cancel the leg, taxpayer has spent £1.4m on properties for a line that is no longer being builtThe government has paid more than £1m to buy properties along HS2's northern leg since Rishi Sunak announced he was cancelling the scheme, the Observer can reveal.The prime minister used his party conference speech in Manchester last year to announce he was axing the line that would have brought it to the city. It angered some senior Tories, while officials and industry insiders have since been scrambling to draw up plans for new capacity on Britain's railways, whi...

The Herald

• Holyrood urged to give update on ScotRail off peak schemeScottish Labour has urged ministers to lay out a plan to cut rail fares before a pilot scheme scrapping peak prices comes to an end.

The Independent

• ’Uncomfortable, unpleasant, unsafe’: How London’s Euston Station became hell on earthDubbed in one memorable tweet as ’a Petri dish of chaos’, London’s Euston station has become a living metaphor for Britain’s crumbling infrastructure – a dire hub of delays, expense and trauma. Katie Rosseinsky dives into its aspirational past and potentially brighter future, and asks where it all went wrong

Times Online

• Greedy train drivers exploit a closed shop [subscription]You are right to question the gulf in pay between train drivers and bus drivers (News Review, last week). The days when driving a train was a highly skilled job are long gone. Yes, train drivers have to learn the modern rulebook in all its complexity. But is that really any harder than learning the Highway Code?

Bolton News

• Clean Air Zone: Tram style train will clean up Bolton's airGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has discussed bringing a new tram-style train service to Bolton during a hustings discussing transport issues.

Cambridge News

• The lost Cambridgeshire railway station on the side of a major Roman roadSome of the buildings and signal box are still standing today

New Civil Engineer

• South Yorkshire exploring possibilities of Supertram network extensionOptions are being explored to expand the South Yorkshire Supertram network now that it is under the ownership of South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (Symca).
• South Yorkshire exploring possibilities of Supertram network extensionOptions are being explored to expand the South Yorkshire Supertram network now that it is under the ownership of South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (Symca).