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Monday, 15 April 2024

Financial Times

• Rail chaos prompts fresh calls to nationalise England's West Coast lineLink to London suffers sustained delays, cancellations, slashed timetables, overcrowding and poor customer service

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

i News

• New HS2 ’embarrassment’ as rail HQ opens but train factory faces closureThe timing of the regulator's temporary headquarters opening in the city is horribly "ironic" and "embarrassing", says Derby City Council leader

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.

Bristol Live

• New type of train service could cut fares by 60% and end strikesOpen access operators set their own fares, take on all revenue risk and receive no taxpayer-funded subsidies

Wrexham.com

• Calls for city centre developers to contribute to new green spaces and better transportDevelopers creating new flats in Wrexham town centre should be contributing towards new green spaces, better public transport and safe car parking.

Get Surrey

• Railway line set to re-open between Redhill and Tonbridge after weeks of disruptionEmergency repairs have been carried out following a major landslip

Other Regional Press

• Wrexham residents to benefit from open access rail boomWrexham residents are among millions of people across Britain who will have access to new train services under rail industry plans.
• Scotland’s Railway selects Age Scotland as new charity partnerScotland’s Railway has launched a new charity partnership with Age Scotland, after staff across ScotRail and Network Rail Scotland selected it to be their new nominated charity.
• Irvine: Work to take place on railway bridge over summerRepair work under a railway bridge in Irvine could be set to take place this summer.
• Transport for Wales announces plan for changing rail demandsTransport for Wales (TfW) has completed its future timetable review following a change in rail travel demands post-covid.

Rail Advent

• West Yorkshire station building to become a community centreThe culmination of 17 years of effort has been celebrated by a group in West Yorkshire who have secured almost £300,000 of funding to transform an old station building into a community centre with studio space for local artists.
• Four boring machines now constructing HS2 tunnel under LondonA fourth tunnel boring machine (TBM) has started tunnelling underneath London to join three others building the Northolt Tunnel for HS2.

The Business Desk

• Pressure grows on Prime Minister to end Alstom Derby crisisThe fast-growing campaign aimed at trying to save thousands of jobs in the region will take another step forward this week when a series of letters are handed in to Downing Street and to the UK boss of Alstom – whose site is at the centre of storm.

Other News Sources

• Network Rail fills further North West & Central CP7 civils frameworksA group of contractors has won places on three Network Rail frameworks for the delivery of capital works in the North West & Central Region, covering both structural and geotechnical engineering.
• What are open access train services?Britain’s rail network could see the addition of seven new open access routes.