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Sunday, 27 October 2024

BBC News

• How the best railway station in UK earned its titleIt is a mild Friday morning in October and although rush hour has been and gone, Maghull railway station is still a hive of activity.

Times Online

• Lost at the station. Follow the blind inventor's navigation app [subscription]Unlike services that rely on phone signal, this tool can tell you which way to turn at the platform, bus stop or even to your seat at the football
• Doomed from the start: the four reasons HS2 failed [subscription]Last week we exposed the chaos that still haunts the project. Now a former No 10 adviser sets out how it became Britain's worst infrastructure scheme in modern history

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Alteration to proposed link road for giant ?1 billion West Midlands Rail Freight Interchange lodgedAn application has been lodged to alter the road dimensions on the proposed ?1 billion West Midlands Rail Freight Interchange in Staffordshire.

Other Regional Press

• Councillor expresses ?disappointment? over no disability friendly features to new railway bridgeA councillor has said they ?disappointed? that no disability-friendly features are part of a new railway footbridge set to open next month, despite lobbying with project managers at ?senior level?.
• New train links could create 3,000 jobsNEW ANALYSIS has shown 3,000 jobs could be created if the rail link is constructed between Coventry, Leicester and Nottingham.