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• Every week brings a fresh HS2 scandal. It’s time to shut it down – all of it | Simon Jenkins

  16-11-2023 18:00
  In an astonishing white paper, Rishi Sunak rips into the project he once lavishly funded. But he doesn’t go far enoughThe most astonishing government document I have ever read sits on my desk. It is called Network North: Transforming British Transport and it purports to explain why Rishi Sunak cancelled half the HS2 project last month. In fact, it does not explain anything. It is an angry rant, tearing the entire HS2 project to bits: ridiculing, smashing and intellectually humiliating it.T
  
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• Out now: Issue 301 of Passenger Transport

  16-11-2023 16:44 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Issue 301 of Passenger Transport is published on November 17.Contents include:
   
   LEAD STORY
  Rail industry baffled by sluggish reform plansRail Reform Bill, aimed at legislating rail reforms, was included in last week’s King’s Speech but concerns linger about the pace of the process
   NEWS
  Operators to share data in return for BSOG+DfT says data gained could play a role in shaping bus policy
  Warwickshire Buses reinvigorates networkNew brand aims to stimulate growth as p
  
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• Rail industry baffled by sluggish reform plans

  16-11-2023 14:49 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Rail Reform Bill, aimed at legislating rail reforms, was included in last week’s King’s Speech but concerns linger about the pace of the process
   
   The recent King’s Speech has drawn attention to industry frustration with the sluggish implementation of rail reform and the implementation of the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail.
  While the Rail Reform Bill, aimed at legislating rail reforms and creating Great British Railways, was confirmed to be in progress, concerns linge
  
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• We’ve saved them, now let’s revive them

  16-11-2023 14:41 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  Closing ticket offices was a terrible idea that no-one wants to own. They should remain, but there are things we can do differently
   Thankfully, plans to close ticket office have been abandoned
   I said shame shame shame shame shame shame shame.Shame on you.
  It’s one of my favourite musical quotes and it’s from the song Shame, Shame, Shame by Shirley and Co – one of the best hits of all time, particularly as I’ve become addicted to ‘Heart 70s’
  
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• ‘Frustrated’ Shoveller sought new challenge

  16-11-2023 14:32 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Tim Shoveller tells Calling All Stations podcast about the reasons behind his departure from Network Rail last summer to take charge at Freightliner
   Tim Shoveller left Network Rail to become CEO of freight operator Freightliner in July
   The railway must unify behind aligned goals and empower its local management. That is the message from Freightliner boss Tim Shoveller, who changed tracks in his career this summer after growing frustrated at Network Rail.
  Having devoted his career to
  
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• Australian-built electric bus heading to UK

  16-11-2023 14:26 via passengertransport.co.uk
  ‘It’s a dream for me,’ says company boss Scott Dunn
   A demonstrator vehicle is already en route to the UK, and is due to arrive in mid-January
   Australian bus builder Custom Denning is targeting the UK market, and a demonstration electric bus is currently being shipped to the UK.
  Custom Denning, one of Australia’s oldest bus builders, is now owned by Scott Dunn, who began his career in the UK bus industry before moving to Australia in 2014. The company has desig
  
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• Rail strikes: Aslef announces industrial action in December

  16-11-2023 08:56
  
  Drivers to stage fresh series of 24-hour strikes and overtime ban after RMT signalled possible breakthroughThe train drivers’ union, Aslef, will stage a series of one-day strikes and call an overtime ban across England’s operating companies at the start of December, ratcheting up the national rail dispute again.Drivers at each company will strike for 24 hours on dates between Saturday 2 and Friday 8 December, and will refuse to work overtime between Friday 1 and Saturday 9 December,
  
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