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• 'People felt cut off': talk of reopening railway line sparks hope in Devon

  01-12-2017 14:55
  Residents of Okehampton welcome news that service that was discontinued as part of Beeching cuts in 1960s may be restoredRomantically minded railway enthusiasts in the West Country town of Okehampton dream of a bygone era when services such as the Atlantic Coast Express and the Devon Belle (which boasted an observation car with huge windows to maximise the views) rattled through.More pragmatic types would simply be glad of a regular service that will allow them to travel by rail to the cities of
  
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• Okehampton residents welcome talk of reopening railway lines

  01-12-2017 14:55
  People ‘cut off’ in rural Devon are hopeful after government’s announcement it may restore some rail services lost in the Beeching cuts in 1960s Romantically minded railway enthusiasts in the west country town of Okehampton dream of a bygone era when services such as the Atlantic Coast Express and the Devon Belle (which boasted an observation car with huge windows to maximise the views) rattled through.More pragmatic types would simply be glad of a regular service that will all
  
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• Out now: Issue 173 of Passenger Transport

  01-12-2017 14:43 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Issue 173 of Passenger Transport is published on December 1
  Contents include:
    
  LEAD STORY
  £1.7bn for integrated transport in cities
  Transforming Cities Fund will target projects which ‘drive productivity’, and chancellor Philip Hammond offers further transport funding in budget
   
  NEWS
  Grayling sets out his strategic vision for rail
  Transport secretary plans to end ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach of franchising and bring closer together the best of
  
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• UK Bus Awards 2017 Souvenir Brochure

  01-12-2017 14:28 via passengertransport.co.uk
  November saw the 22nd annual UK Bus Awards held at a ceremony in London, and you can read all about the winners and finalists in this official Souvenir Brochure.
  Click on the image below to view The Big Book of Big Winners 2017.
   
  If you are viewing the site on a tablet or mobile device, tap here to view.
  
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• £1.7bn for integrated transport in cities

  01-12-2017 14:25 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Transforming Cities Fund will target projects which ‘drive productivity’, and chancellor Philip Hammond offers further transport funding in budget
    
  Prime minister Theresa May has launched a new £1.7bn fund to transform transport connections within England’s city regions.
  Announced ahead of last week’s budget, the new Transforming Cities Fund will target projects which “drive productivity by improving connectivity, reducing congestion and utilising
  
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• Leon Daniels: ‘Get ready for a revolution’

  01-12-2017 14:20 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Leon Daniels urges UK Bus Awards audience to embrace innovation and think about the future
   
  Leon Daniels: ‘Everybody wants progress but nobody wants change’
   
  Leon Daniels was thinking about the future when he addressed the UK Bus Awards in London last week. His own future, and the future of the bus industry.
  Daniels, who was filling in for the absent buses minister, Jesse Norman, is entering a new phase in his career. He will shortly retire from his role as managing direc
  
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• The tube’s advance into London’s suburbs – archive, 1 December 1924

  01-12-2017 06:00
  1 December 1924 Millions have been spent on an enormous post-war expansion programmeFleet Street, Sunday
  The opening of the remade City and South London Railway tomorrow marks another stage in the conquest of the suburbs by Tube. This word Tube will soon be a misnomer. By the end of next year it will be possible to travel over twenty-three miles from Edgware to Morden – “the Edgmore” is suggested as a new name for the railway — and only about half the distance will be und
  
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• York Railway Station revamp still on track despite early franchise end, says Virgin

  01-12-2017 01:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  The York Press - VIRGIN Trains East Coast is to press ahead with a major redevelopment of York Railway Station and upgrade of its train fleet, despite its franchise ending early.
  
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• Why is the fine design of Port Loop lost on those who should know better?

  01-12-2017 01:00 via birminghammail.co.uk
  Birmingham Mail - Architect Joe Holyoak fights the corner for a major regeneration which wasn't universally loved by the city's planners
  
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• What if your bus tips over?

  01-12-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - These children are finding out.
  
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• UberEats Europe boss latest executive to quit group

  01-12-2017 01:00 via ft.com
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• Uber hit by another big-name departure Subscription

  01-12-2017 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - The head of Ubers food delivery business in Europe has joined the exodus of senior staff from the company, announcing plans to leave for a job in venture capitalism.
  
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• Uber Faces More Awkward Questions Over Safety Of Drivers And Passengers

  01-12-2017 01:00 via huffingtonpost.co.uk
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• Tom Richmond: Graylings failings and why he will be held to account over Crossrail for the North

  01-12-2017 01:00 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  Yorkshire Post - THE significance of Transport Secretary Chris Graylings answer to a Parliamentary question this week should not be under-estimated.
  
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• Ticketless train travel would be a big mistake, says ROSS CLARK

  01-12-2017 01:00 via express.co.uk
  Daily Express - THE Government's new rail strategy promises to reopen a few lines closed by Dr Beeching in the 1960s.
  
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• Think our rural rail services are patchy? It could have been even worse

  01-12-2017 01:00 via eadt.co.uk
  East Anglian Daily Times - The phrase Beeching Axe is back in the news, with Transport Secretary Chris Grayling saying some lost railways could be reopened. Steven Russell looks back to the day the planned cuts rocked East Anglia
  
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• The UK's new plan to fix the creaking railways

  01-12-2017 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - It is not clear government has the answers to problems long foretold
  
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• The tubes advance into Londons suburbs archive, 1924

  01-12-2017 01:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - The opening of the remade City and South London Railway tomorrow marks another stage in the conquest of the suburbs by Tube
  
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• South Eastern train services could be cut after new rail franchise award

  01-12-2017 01:00 via newsshopper.co.uk
  Other News Sources - Plans to improve rail travel on the South Eastern franchise have been announced - but some current services could be cut.
  
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• Sidmouth Railway line is one of thousands which could be reopened

  01-12-2017 01:00 via sidmouthherald.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - Sidmouth railway line is one of thousands across the country that could be reopened after half a century.
  
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• Plan to use London Underground-style seating on new Metro trains is approved

  01-12-2017 01:00 via sunderlandecho.com
  Sunderland Echo - London Underground-style seating is set to be used on new Metro trains - despite opposition from councillors in Sunderland.
  
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• NR at fault for 'potentially disastrous' Liverpool Lime Street wall collapse

  01-12-2017 01:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  Rail Technology Magazine - Investigators have found that Network Rail was partially at fault for a wall that collapsed onto open railway lines earlier this year. Services at Liverpool Lime Street ground to a halt earlier this year when the wall collapsed over all four lines into the station, causing commuters five days of...
  
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• New Strategic Vision for Rail must protect freight, says FTA

  01-12-2017 01:00 via fta.co.uk
  Other News Sources - The changes proposed in the Department for Transport's Strategic Vision for Rail, must be done in a way that protects, and is seen to protect, ...
  
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• New rail strategy hides reality of a broken model Subscription

  01-12-2017 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - Pantomime season arrived early in parliament this week with a conjuring trick from the secretary of state for transport, Chris Grayling, on Wednesday worthy of the finest sleight of hand offered by the likes of Paul Daniels or Derren Brown.
  
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• New bridge over railway in Ash needed before 1,750 new homes are built, council told

  01-12-2017 01:00 via getsurrey.co.uk
  Other News Sources -Network Rail says the current level crossing is a "significant safety risk"
  
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• MPs demonising diesel hurting British motor industry

  01-12-2017 01:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  This is Money- SMMT president, Tony Walker (pictured right) said: 'Banning diesel and petrol cars might be a sound bite that works but it's not a policy that works.'
  
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• MP admits "frustration" with local train services

  01-12-2017 01:00 via halesowennews.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - WEST Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin has called for more train services, admitting being frustrated by Great Western Railway.
  
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• London firms 'could move their offices to Newcastle' because of HS2 high speed rail

  01-12-2017 01:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Business leaders have backed claims that the Governments planned high speed rail line will bring huge benefits to the North East - even though it wont actually come to the region.
  
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• Listen: Uber on trial

  01-12-2017 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Latest salvo in courtroom battle raises questions over Ubers business tactics
  
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• Inverness to Wick train services return to normal

  01-12-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - Damage caused to part of a railway line's track bed and embankment in Caithness has been repaired.
  
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• HS2 to spark productivity drive in Midlands, leaders say

  01-12-2017 01:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  Rail Technology Magazine - Businesses in the Midlands have today stated that improved transport connections created by HS2 will reduce inequality between high and low performing regions and push forward productivity growth. In a report published by HS2 Ltd today, mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street alongside chairman...
  
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• Guildford railway station studies could lead to extra platform being built to increase capacity

  01-12-2017 01:00 via getsurrey.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - Platform Zero could provide an additional bay/terminating platform at Guildford on the east side of the station
  
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• Grayling Wrongly Denies Rail Bailout

  01-12-2017 01:00 via morningstaronline.co.uk
  Morning Star - TRANSPORT Secretary Chris Grayling was accused of misleading Parliament yesterday as the row over a controversial private rail bailout gathered steam.
  
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• Go-Ahead profits stabilise as year-long strike row draws to a close

  01-12-2017 01:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  Rail Technology Magazine - The Go-Ahead Groupmp;rsquo;s trading has been in line with expectations across its rail business during the first four months of the year (2 July mp;ndash; 29 November) as the company seeks to put its year-long history of strike action behind it. Go-Ahead, which is a 65 shareholder of the Govia...
  
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• Go-Ahead on track to profit despite a fall in passengers Subscription

  01-12-2017 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - The operator of strike-hit Southern Rail said that it was wholly focused on improving services for passengers yesterday after train drivers ended their lengthy dispute with the company.
  
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• General Motors aims to run fleets of self-driving taxis by 2019

  01-12-2017 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - First carmaker planning to use technology at scale expects profit on rides at $1 a mile
  
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• Direct trains from Addlestone and Chertsey to central London 'could be thing of the past' as South Western Railway plans new timetable

  01-12-2017 01:00 via getsurrey.co.uk
  Other News Sources -The new timetable, which is set to come into operation on December 9 2018, might have an impact on train services into London
  
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• Bus lane rakes in £1.3m in year

  01-12-2017 01:00 via expressandstar.com
  Wolverhampton Express and Star - More than £1.3 million has been brought in from a single bus lane in just one year.
  
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• Bunker suppliers must prepare for the death of fossil fuels in shipping says ICS

  01-12-2017 01:00 via maritimejournal.com
  Other News Sources - Marine fuel suppliers should anticipate that there may no longer be significant demand for fossil fuels from shipping within as little as 25 years, if not sooner, and that the sector is now on an inevitable trajectory towards a future of zero CO2 emissions.
  
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• Blaenavon business helping to bolster nation's rail network

  01-12-2017 01:00 via southwalesargus.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - THE Torfaen AM has paid a visit to a leading manufacturer of engineering equipment in Torfaen to get a better understanding of her constituencys involvement with the growing rail industry in south Wales and the wider nation.
  
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• BAE Systems' shares are boosted after getting the thumbs up on its UK pensions proposal

  01-12-2017 01:00 via cityam.com
  City AM - BAE Systems' share price got a boost today after the defence firm announced a deal with UK pension trustees.
  
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• Australasian hubs primed for growth, Airbus says

  01-12-2017 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aviation Industry- Airbus expects strong traffic growth in the South Pacific market will continue over the next 20 years, increasing the number of Australasian hubs ranked in the largest global categories.read more
  
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• American, pilots union disagree on number of uncovered holiday flights

  01-12-2017 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aviation Industry- American Airlines indicated it is well on its way to resolving the pilot-staffing situation related to holiday season flights, saying it is down to just a few hundred unassigned flights.read more
  
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• American Airlines now says a few hundred flights without pilots

  01-12-2017 01:00 via ft.com
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• Abellio Greater Anglia: Dutch train firm defends UK ticket prices

  01-12-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - A Dutch-owned train firm has defended its UK ticket pricing after the BBC found similar journeys in the Netherlands cost about half as much money.
  
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