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Saturday, 03 October 2026

Mail Online

• Trains cancelled and carriages sealed up over BED BUG infestationThe bugs affected the West Marina train care depot near Hastings, East Sussex, which serves routes between London and Kent.
• Bedford train driver accelerated as he passed through red signal before major crash that killed him, official report saysAn interim report published today found Shaun Burton passed through a red signal at 58mph before ploughing into the back of another train.

The Mirror

• 'Bedbug express' train ran twice last week as drivers 'refuse to board without hazmat suit'Train services have been cancelled after a driver reportedly refused to get behind the controls without a hazmat suit - while another 'bedbug express' did run with locked carriages

Birmingham Mail

• Ticket gates plan at Midland railway station to tackle county lines drug dealersThe gates at Stafford Railway Station would bring it into line with other Staffordshire railway stations such as Stoke-on-Trent and Wolverhampton

Metro

• Inside the £120,000,000 South Kensington Tube station upgrade as work begins this yearSouth Kensington is about to undergo a major upgrade.

Oxford Mail

• £7bn East West Rail strike action branded an 'absolute disgrace'An East West Rail action group has branded the announcement of strike action as an "absolute disgrace".

Other Regional Press

• Kent trains cancelled after bedbugs foundPest control specialists were reportedly called to an outbreak of bedbugs on some Southeastern carriageways serving London and Kent.

Railnews

• Signal passed in Bedford crash had no SPAD alarm An interim report from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch has revealed that the red signal which was passed a few seconds before the rear-end collision south of Bedford on 19 June this year was not equipped with a SPAD alarm. The driver of the second train was killed, and more than 160 people were injured.