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• Which railway lines in Scotland could be reopened?

  10-02-2018 01:00 via scotsman.com
  The Scotsman - Which railway lines in Scotland could be reopened?
  
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• Thomas Cook ups summer capacity 10 on Airberlin Aviation acquisition

  10-02-2018 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aviation Industry- Leisure travel group Thomas Cook has increased its 2018 summer capacity by 10 through its acquisition of Airberlin Aviation, an affiliate of bankrupt airberlin, and has established Thomas Cook Airlines Balearics, which is based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.read more
  
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• The Big Lemon A new form of public transport

  10-02-2018 01:00 via eta.co.uk
  Green Miscellany - Imagine if community transport was owned and operated by the community. The Big Lemon is owned and run by members of the community and actively encourages local people to buy shares in the company during regular public meetings where people can come and discuss their thoughts, ideas and concerns. In 2006 a group of people in Brighton decided to set The post The Big LemonA new form of public transport appeared first on ETA.
  
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• ScotRail has again failed to hit a key performance target, with the punctuality measure falling for the fifth month in a row.

  10-02-2018 01:00 via edinburghnews.scotsman.com
  Edinburgh Evening News - A total of 90.1 per cent of its trains arrived on time in the year to last Saturday, figures published today showed.
  
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• Russian train introduces stop for a single schoolgirl

  10-02-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - A key railway route in northwestern Russia has introduced a stop to serve just two passengers: a 14-year-old girl and her grandmother.
  
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• Lessor CALC leads Airbus January order tally

  10-02-2018 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aviation Industry- After Airbus record-breaking conclusion to 2017, in which the Toulouse-based manufacturer gained firm orders for 836 aircraft in December alone, the companys January 2018 commercial orders returned to a normal pace, with a total of 20 aircraft firmed between two customers, valued at approximately $2.2 billion at list prices. read more
  
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• HS2 awarded first BREEAM Infrastructure certificate

  10-02-2018 01:00 via ciltuk.org.uk
  Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport - HS2 has become the UKs first infrastructure project to be awarded a BREEAM Infrastructure (pilot) Scheme Certificate for its ambitious sustainability strategy on Phase 1 of the project.The assessment demonstrates that HS2 is committed to going beyond enhancement and protection of the environment, to address the key social and economic impacts of the development. It includes features such as working in harmony with communities, being a great neighb
  
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• Grayling consults on plans to reopen historic northern line

  10-02-2018 01:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  Rail Technology Magazine - The transport secretary has this week revealed plans to complete a feasibility study on reopening the Skipton-Colne line, closed in 1970. Chris Grayling said the line had the potential to deliver a mp;ldquo;vital connectionmp;rdquo; between Lancashire and Yorkshire, boosting economic and business...
  
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• FedEx and UPS hit as Amazon 'plots shipping expansion'

  10-02-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - The e-commerce giant is expanding tests of a programme to pick up packages from its merchants.
  
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• Eurostar to Amsterdam: Direct service from London to start in April

  10-02-2018 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  London Evening Standard - Direct high speed Eurostar rail services from London to Amsterdam will start in early April with a journey time of three hours 41 minutes.
  
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• Eurostar services will start running to Amsterdam by April

  10-02-2018 01:00 via cityam.com
  City AM - Eurostar has unveiled its newest destination: services will begin running to the Netherlands by the beginning of April, it said today.
  
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• Eurostar launches London-Amsterdam route

  10-02-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - The new route from the Channel Tunnel rail service is due to start in April.
  
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• Eurostar commits to green power by 2030 and all electric vehicles by 2020

  10-02-2018 01:00 via railtechnologymagazine.com
  Rail Technology Magazine - Eurostar has this week confirmed its commitment to have complete replacements for fossil fuels within the next 12 years. In the companymp;rsquo;s mp;lsquo;Tread Lightly 10-point plan,mp;rsquo; it set out a range of promises which it would be working towards, including completely replacing all vehicles...
  
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• Eurostar announce London to Amsterdam route will not stop in Kent

  10-02-2018 01:00 via kentonline.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - A high speed service taking people from London to Amsterdam has been announced... but it won't be stopping in Kent.
  
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• EasyJet shareholders put more Brexit protections in place

  10-02-2018 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aviation Industry- UK LCC easyJet is proceeding with plans to protect its business from the possible effects of Brexit on the air transport industry, changing rules governing the ownership of its shares and applying for a standalone UK air operators certificate (AOC).read more
  
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• East Coast line bailout puts rail privatisation back in spotlight

  10-02-2018 01:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - or the third time in a decade, an East Coast rail franchise operator has shown little of the financial prudence once associated with the great cities linked by its trains from London to Yorkshire and Scotland. Following the failures of GNER in 2007 and National Express in 2009, Virgin Trains East Coast has run out of steam, with the government declaring a financial covenant breached and the contract set to fail in months.
  
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• DfT pledges funding for five rail stations due to open by March 2020

  10-02-2018 01:00 via transportxtra.com
  Transportxtra - Plans are being drawn up for five new stations across England and Wales, which will receive a total of £16m funding from the Department for Transport towards the projects. All the stationsin County Durham, Warrington, Reading, Ceredigion and Bristol - are due to be completed by March 2020:
  
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• Ciao! New high speed trains coming from Italy

  10-02-2018 01:00 via itv.com
  ITV News - The first of a new fleet of high speed trains for the Thames Valley came off the production line this afternoon (09/02) near Pisa in Italy.
  
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• Cardiff Airport to Doha flights cut due to new plane delays

  10-02-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - Qatar Airways says a full service from Cardiff will run from mid-June when its new stock arrives.
  
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• Can anyone last the course on the east coast main line? subscription

  10-02-2018 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - It begs an obvious question. When it emerged this week that Virgin Trains east coast would collapse in only a few months, it signalled the third time in 11 years that the principal operator of the the 400-mile rail link between London and Edinburgh has imploded. Indeed, three out of the four franchises on the line since it was privatised in the mid-1990s have ended in ignominy. So is it coincidence, or is there something fundamentally wrong with the east coast main line?
  
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• Block of ice crashes to earth near Kew Gardens

  10-02-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - It is understood the ice fell from a plane as it approached Heathrow.
  
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• Andrew Adonis and the economic line to take on railways

  10-02-2018 01:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - Andrew Adonis makes excellent points about rail nationalisation (Graylings rail bailout echoes the grave errors of New Labour, 8 February). However, this is not just about outsourcing in general. It is about the longstanding contrast in economic theory between public goods and private goods, as developed by Paul Samuelson in the 1950s, and between specific and non-specific assets, as developed by Oliver Williamson in the 1970s, both leading to Nobel prizes.
  
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• 3,000 new jobs on track for Leeds at rail hub

  10-02-2018 01:00 via yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk
  Yorkshire Evening Post - The UKs first dedicated hub for high-speed rail technologies is set to be built in Leedsand could initially create some 3,000 new jobs for the city.
  
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