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• HS2 subcontractor’s role on £100m ‘bat tunnel’ terminated after claims of inflated pay rates

  17-07-2025 18:48
  Contractor BAM ends Danny Sullivan Group’s involvement following investigation into ‘compliance issues’An HS2 subcontractor has been terminated from its role supplying labour to build a £100m “bat tunnel” following an investigation into allegations of overinflating rates for staff.BAM Nuttall (BAM), part of a consortium that is the main works contractor for the much-delayed £80bn-plus high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham, said it had ended
  
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• Number of city rail commuters in England and Wales passes pre-Covid levels

  17-07-2025 17:45
  Two million passengers took weekday trains into cities last autumn, the highest number since records beganThe number of rail passengers travelling into cities in England and Wales has overtaken pre-Covid levels but changing work and travel patterns have eased overcrowding on the morning commute, official statistics show.Almost 1.9 million people took trains into cities on a typical weekday last autumn, the highest figure since the records were first collated in 2010. Continue reading...
  
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• London-Berlin trains on the drawing board for UK-German rail taskforce

  17-07-2025 15:28
  Chance of direct services reignites hopes for better rail links across Europe as Starmer and Merz pledge to sign bilateral treatyPlans for possible direct trains from London to Berlin will be drawn up by a joint UK-German taskforce, reigniting hopes for better rail connections across Europe.The partnership, announced as part of the bilateral treaty to be signed by the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, and his German counterpart, Friedrich Merz, could eventually lead to direct rail services b
  
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