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Rail freight flourishes as passenger operators strive to evolve - Chris Stokes
The current serious shortage of HGV drivers is good news for rail freight companies, who now have potential customers beating a path to their door.
Calls for Northern Powerhouse Rail in Bradford are ramped up
FURTHER calls have been made for a high-speed rail in the North with a station in Bradford.
Tired train commuters offered hypnotherapy sessions
Hypnotherapy sessions are to be made available for rail passengers to help them get into a positive mindset.
MPs call ‘urgent meeting’ over latest National Highways bridge infilling plan
MPs have called an “urgent meeting” in response to another controversial bridge infilling scheme led by National Highways.
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
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- Rail freight flourishes as passenger operators strive to evolve - Chris StokesThe current serious shortage of HGV drivers is good news for rail freight companies, who now have potential customers beating a path to their door.
BBC News
- Hitachi to digitally upgrade rail signalling in GloucesterRail services are to be made "more reliable" thanks to a major digital upgrade, it has been announced. Hitachi Rail will work with Network Rail and Linbrooke Railway to create a digital signalling system for trains in the Gloucester area.
- London memorial plan for Covid transport workers releasedIt aims to honour the 98 public transport workers who have died from Covid-19 in London.
Financial Times
- SpaceX: how Elon Musk’s new rocket could transform the space raceThe entrepreneur hopes the Starship will help take humans to Mars. Rivals fear it will dominate US deep space exploration
- Southwest flight delays drag on into a fourth dayPilots union says widespread disruptions expose ‘brittle’ pandemic-era operations
- Maersk diverts big cargo ships from UK as Felixstowe fills upDanish group affected as HGV driver shortage hits unloading
The Guardian
- Ryanair bans Covid refund passengers from boarding new flightsHolidaymakers say they were given just hours to pay back cash claimed though credit cards. Ryanair has been accused of barring passengers who pursued chargebacks against the airline during the pandemic from taking new flights this year unless they return their refunds.
Times Online
- Shetland blasts off into space race as Britain’s first rocket launch pad Skyrora [subscription]Skyrora, a technology company with its headquarters in Edinburgh, has agreed a deal for scores of rocket launches over the next decade from a site on Unst, the most northerly of the Shetland islands.
City AM
- Wizz Air chief executive calls carbon offsetting "a bit of a joke"Wizz Air’s chief executive Jozsef Varadi has branded carbon offsetting as “a bit of a joke”, despite offering the scheme as part of the airline’s sustainability programme.
Daily Express
- 'Shortage was created by the Chancellor! Tax code changes influenced lorry driver crisisTAX CODE changes have contributed to a lorry driver shortage with workers being paid relatively less, new analysis shows.
The Mirror
- Key northern rail link could pump £22bn into economy over 30 years, says reportConnecting Leeds, Bradford and Manchester by high-speed trains could deliver the boost, according to a major study by an engineering consultancy
Birmingham Post
- Major HS2 contract triggers new North East factory and 100 jobsStrabag will open a new facility in Hartlepool to fulfil the contract on an old oil rig fabrication site
Bradford Telegraph & Argus
- Ryanair passengers barred from flights unless they return Covid refundsIn one case the customer was informed they would need to return a refund for a previous flight just days before they were due to travel.
- Calls for Northern Powerhouse Rail in Bradford are ramped upFURTHER calls have been made for a high-speed rail in the North with a station in Bradford.
- Office space for new-to-District online private hire firm Bolt is approvedAN app based private hire firm will get a foothold in the Bradford District after plans for an office in Saltaire were approved.
- Leeds could introduce Clean Air Zone in coming yearsA LONDON-style charging zone for high-polluting vehicles could be introduced in Leeds over the coming years in an attempt to combat climate change, a newly-released council document has suggested.
London Evening Standard
- London Tube users keener on a night out rather than office returnLondoners are keener to get back on the Tube to go shopping or to spend a night on the town than to return to the office, a transport chief has said.
Wales Online
- Tired train commuters offered hypnotherapy sessionsHypnotherapy sessions are to be made available for rail passengers to help them get into a positive mindset.
Yorkshire Post
- Northern Powerhouse Rail: Building new line between Leeds and Manchester via Bradford 'worth £22bn to economy'Building the proposed new high-speed Northern Powerhouse Rail link between Leeds and Manchester via Bradford could deliver a £22bn boost to the region’s economy - £8bn more than previously forecast than for the entire route, new analysis has claimed.
Leeds Live
- Leeds bus services set for major overhaul as part of £380m transformation to public transport in cityLeeds City Council's leader says he wants 'to run buses like London runs buses' amid £380 million funding plans
- Let's set up Leeds's very own 'Oyster card', says council chiefDriverless cars and charges for high-polluting vehciles and workplace parking could all be on the horizon as well
Other Regional Press
- Delay warning on rail lines between Weymouth - London Waterloo and BristolDORSET railway lines are to close - one route for more than two weeks - while major engineering work takes place, passengers are being warned.
- Anger over 'bus stop to nowhere' amid losses elsewhere across Nuneaton and Bedworth"It is nothing more than a glorified bench'
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
- DP World opens £3M Southampton storage park DP World has opened an 11.5 acre new empty containers park at Southampton to increase storage capacity and maintain service levels for customers during the peak pre-Christmas season. The new facility will be able to hold additional empty containers to meet customers’ requirements, a critical factor in keeping supply chains moving at a time when dwell times at terminals across the UK have increased. Ernst Schulze, UK Chief Executive of DP World, said: “The new £3m empty park is part of DP World’s ongoing £40m investment this year at Britain’s s...
New Civil Engineer
- Bristol Airport awaits decision on expansion as inquiry draws to a closeThe public inquiry into Bristol Airport's expansion proposal has drawn to a close, with a decision expected early next year.
- Detailed dualling designs revealed for A-road upgrade between London and SomersetNational Highways has revealed the proposed route map for the A358 Taunton to Southfields upgrade, along with a visualisation of a section of the project.
- MPs call ‘urgent meeting’ over latest National Highways bridge infilling planMPs have called an “urgent meeting” in response to another controversial bridge infilling scheme led by National Highways.
- Northern Powerhouse Rail | Motts calls for ‘essential’ Bradford link amid reports of scaling back routeMott MacDonald will today send an unwavering message to government not to scale back plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail. In a report due out this morning, the engineering giant will warn government that scaling back the proposed Northern Powerhouse Rail route would render prime minister Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” agenda as “nothing more than rhetoric”.
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