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Transport secretary Chris Grayling faces growing pressure for faster journeys and better connections.

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Civil Aviation Authority describes airport's outsourced assistance services to more than a million travellers a year as poorDisabled passengers arriving at Heathrow airport are being forced to wait up to two hours for help in disembarking aircraft, the aviation regulator has said.The west London hub is one of four airports where the Civil Aviation Authority judged the service for wheelchair users and other disabled passengers to be poor . The others were Manchester, East Midlands and Exeter.

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  • Ten injured after bus crashes into shop in south LondonDriver reportedly said he blacked out before bus mounted pavement near Clapham Junction
  • Wales on rails: fine food and great views on the Holyhead to CardiffThe Gerald of Wales, which runs the length of the country, is a rarity: a train with an onboard chef serving three-course meals and proper morning fry-upsI can smell Gerald long before I can see him. It's a misty summer morning and there’s an aroma of frying bacon wafting from the onboard kitchen of the train that's standing, almost bashfully, on the furthermost platform of Holyhead station, Anglesey.
  • Disabled passengers 'forced to wait hours to disembark at Heathrow'Civil Aviation Authority describes airport's outsourced assistance services to more than a million travellers a year as poorDisabled passengers arriving at Heathrow airport are being forced to wait up to two hours for help in disembarking aircraft, the aviation regulator has said.The west London hub is one of four airports where the Civil Aviation Authority judged the service for wheelchair users and other disabled passengers to be poor . The others were Manchester, East Midlands and Exeter.
  • The barging jogger is just one example of the hell of urban pavementsBring back pedestrian etiquette it's sheer selfishness that has turned our streets into obstacle courses I've just been having a stare at the CCTV footage of that jogger on a London bridge who pushed a woman into the path of an oncoming bus in May. I can't think why he did it. He had plenty of room to pass. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised. Most joggers do seem mad keen to jog in a straight line and not stop for anyone or anything. He was just an extreme version. And most joggers tend to look rather miserable and tormented ...

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  • Deals this week: Bombardier NUG Propulsion System, Proven Management, Hofmann Engineering A Chinese joint venture between Bombardier Transportation and New United Group (NUG) known as Bombardier NUG Propulsion System (BNP) will supply Mitrac propulsion and control equipment for 264 metro cars, which are set to operate on the Nanchang Metr…
  • DfT reveals Abellio JV as winner of West Midlands rail franchiseThe DfT has announced that West Midlands Trains Ltd, a joint venture between Abellio, East Japan Railway Company and Mitsui & Co Ltd, has won the contract to operate the next West Midlands rail franchise. Two train companies had been in the running for the West Midlands franchise after MTR...
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  • NR served with nearly £5m worth of health and safety fines in 2016-17The rate of improvement in health and safety on the rail network has “plateaued”, the ORR has stated. It was also revealed that over the course of the last year, Network Rail paid out almost £5m in fines for three separate incidents that resulted in the company being...
  • RMT calls on Grayling to urgently intervene in Southern disputeThe RMT has put further pressure on transport secretary Chris Grayling today as it penned an open letter calling for “urgent intervention” in its dispute with Southern. Back in June, the RMT called for talks to be held as Grayling was reappointed into the Cabinet following the...

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  • Anglia fare-dodgers pay more than £100,000 in a month Greater Anglia has revealed that almost 500 people have been prosecuted after a summer crackdown on fraudulent travel in London and Essex, and that the fines they paid totalled more than £72,000. By the time court costs had been added, the penalties exceeded £100,000.
  • RMT voices new staffing concerns The RMT says it is demanding ˜urgent talks™ over staffing with Abellio and its partners after they were named as preferred bidders for the next West Midlands franchise by the Department for Transport. The joint venture, led by Abellio, is set to take over from Govia™s London Midland in December. The union is also calling for clarification over on-train staffing on the new South Western franchise, which starts in ten days from now, and urging transport secretary Chris Grayling to intervene in the deadlocked dispute on Southern.
  • Abellio wins West Midlands franchise A joint venture led by Abellio has won the West Midlands franchise, ending a decade of control by Govia. The routes between London, the West Midlands and Liverpool are set to receive an investment of almost £1 billion, said the Department for Transport. The fleet will be boosted by 400 new vehicles, which are to be in service by 2021, while the new contract includes compensation for delays of more than 15 minutes. The franchise also marks a step towards more devolution, because services on routes within the West Midlands region will be jointly managed by the Department for Transport and West ...
  • Trenitalia backs out of South Eastern contest Italian train operator Trenitalia has announced that it is withdrawing from the competition to win the next South Eastern franchise. The UK division of Trenitalia bought the c2c franchise from National Express earlier this year and has also been shortlisted for West Coast Partnership and East Midlands Trains. Trenitalia said its decision to withdraw from the South Eastern competition had been taken 'regretfully', but it had identified a ˜significant overlap™ between the competitions for South Eastern and West Coast.

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