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• Monday briefing: ‘Heroic’ rail worker fights for life after 15 minutes of horror

  03-11-2025 07:40
  In today’s newsletter: The attack left nine in life-threatening condition but the police have ruled out any suggestion that it was a terrorist incident Good morning. After Saturday night’s shocking knife attack on a train bound for King’s Cross from Doncaster, yesterday eyewitnesses started to tell their stories. They described a horrifying 15 minutes, in which a man armed with a knife made his way through the train as passengers tried to run away, blockaded themselves in toile
  
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• West Midlands transport bosses exploring ways to make evening travel ?easier and safer?

  03-11-2025 01:00 via expressandstar.com
  Wolverhampton Express and Star - West Midlands transport bosses are exploring ways to make evening travel ?easier and safer? in a bid to boost the region?s night time economy.
  
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• Trains disrupted in Cumbria after Glasgow-London service derails in Shap

  03-11-2025 01:00 via news.sky.com
  Sky News - There were no "significant" injuries after an early-morning service left the tracks near the village of Shap.
  
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• Train stabbing fuels UK public’s feeling of insecurity

  03-11-2025 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Cambridgeshire attack is second mass knife crime incident in less than a week
  
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• This ?business class? bus has lie-flat beds

  03-11-2025 01:00 via executivetraveller.com
  News from Europe - A unique overnight coach service brings business class style to the roads ? provided you?re not in a hurry to get anywhere.There?ll soon be a new way to travel between European cities: on board a business class coach fitted with 21 airline-style seats which convert into fully flat beds.
  
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• This 'business class' bus has lie-flat beds

  03-11-2025 01:00 via executivetraveller.com
  News from Europe - A unique overnight coach service brings business class style to the roadsprovided yoump;#39;re not in a hurry to get anywhere.Theremp;#39;ll soon be a new way to travel between European cities: on board a business class coach fitted with 21 airline-style seats which convert into fully flat beds.
  
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• The simple change that's transforming lives across Greater Manchester

  03-11-2025 01:00 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  Manchester Evening News - Across the UK, travel on concessionary bus passes is typically limited to after 9.30am on weekdays
  
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• Rush hour bus lane rule changes come into effect

  03-11-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - Several bus lanes in Belfast and Carryduff have had their operating hours extended as part of efforts to improve traffic flow before Christmas.
  
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• Road scheme to improve safety and accessibility

  03-11-2025 01:00 via bbc.com
  BBC News - Changes to a main road through Mexborough will improve safety and accessibility to shops, according to City of Doncaster Council cabinet papers.
  
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• Pensioners can use bus pass without restrictions from today

  03-11-2025 01:00 via theboltonnews.co.uk
  Bolton News - A month-long trial lifting the weekday 9.30am travel restriction for older and disabled bus pass holders has officially begun across Greater Manchester.
  
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• London Luton Airport runway resurfacing starts

  03-11-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - London Luton Airport (LLA) will carry out essential runway resurfacing works over about five months at a cost of mp;pound;18m.
  
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• Jet2 marks 15 millionth customer at Birmingham Airport

  03-11-2025 01:00 via insidermedia.com
  Other News Sources -Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have welcomed their 15 millionth customer to travel with them from Birmingham Airport.
  
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• Innovative rail ticket technology trial expands across the North

  03-11-2025 01:00 via gov.uk
  Department for Transport - Passengers can sign up for the rail digital ticketing trials on Northern's website.
  
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• Indonesia’s China-backed bullet train derailed by mounting debt

  03-11-2025 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Jakarta is in restructuring talks with Beijing as flagship mp;#145;Whooshmp;#146; railway project racks up losses
  
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• How Oxford congestion charge affected bus passenger numbers

  03-11-2025 01:00 via witneygazette.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - Bus passenger numbers in Oxford city centre were "slightly higher than normal" in the first days of the new congestion charge.
  
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• High Court battle against Gatwick Airport new second runway launched by local campaigners

  03-11-2025 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  London Evening Standard - Local residents have launched a legal challenge against Gatwickmp;#39;s plans for a new second runway.
  The Communities against Gatwick Noise Emissions (CAGNE) campaign group is seeking to take the Government to the High Court over its backing for expanding the number of flights at the airport in Londonmp;#39;s commuter belt.
  
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• Glasgow to London train derails in Cumbria - no injuries reported but 'days of disruption' expected

  03-11-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - A train travelling from Glasgow to London has derailed near Shap in Cumbria
  
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• Extra officers across rail network after train stabbings

  03-11-2025 01:00 via bbc.com
  BBC News - More police will be at stations in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, York and London, as well as Huntington.
  
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• Electric buses to be given £1.25m investment

  03-11-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - More than mp;pound;1m could be invested in electric buses in what is being hailed as a mp;quot;step changemp;quot; in public transport.
  
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• Electric buses to be given ?1.25m investment

  03-11-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - More than ?1m could be invested in electric buses in what is being hailed as a "step change" in public transport.
  
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• Cost of reopening Doncaster Sheffield Airport rises to £193m

  03-11-2025 01:00 via placeyorkshire.co.uk
  Other News Sources - A report by the council shows that as well as rising in cost by around mp;pound;50m, the airport is projected to make a loss for the first nine years of operation, up from a previous estimate of five.
  
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• Choice between two bus routes branded 'unfair'

  03-11-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - Passengers say they have been given an "unfair" choice between two bus routes.
  In July 2023, Arriva cut a County Durham bus service that gave people in Peterlee, Fishburn and other nearby areas direct links to Darlington and Newton Aycliffe due to "funding reductions".
  
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• Cheap train ticket trial announced for Northern passengers in Yorkshire

  03-11-2025 01:00 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  Yorkshire Post - A new trial in Yorkshire has been launched to provide cheaper and simpler train trickets to passengers using modern technology.Rail Minister Lord Hendy spoke to The Yorkshire Post for the announcement of a fresh trial for passengers using Northern services between Sheffield and Doncaster from today.
  
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• Calderdale bus services should return to how they were before cuts, councillors heard

  03-11-2025 01:00 via halifaxcourier.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - Some Calderdale bus services should return to how they were in March 2024before they were cutonce bus franchising comes in, councillors heard.
  
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• c2c to provide GoodMaps digital wayfinding at all its stations

  03-11-2025 01:00 via railwaygazette.com
  Railway Gazette - Commuter train operator c2c Railway is to make GoodMaps? digital wayfinding technology available to improve accessibility at all 26 stations on its London to Shoeburyness route.
  
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• Brave LNER train crew member 'undoubtedly saved many people's lives'

  03-11-2025 01:00 via railnews.co.uk
  Railnews -Tributes have been paid to the train manager who was seriously injured in Saturday nightmp;#146;s stabbing attacks on an LNER train. The train manager tried to stop the attacks, and is in hospital with mp;#145;life-threateningmp;#146; injuries. The driver of the train from York, Andrew Johnson, has also been praised for his speedy response, because he liased swiftly with control when the alarm was raised south of Peterborough, so that his train could be diverted from the up through lin
  
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• Barrage of fireworks launched at bus

  03-11-2025 01:00 via bbc.com
  BBC News - Police investigating a number of fireworks incidents in Birmingham say they have arrested 10 people.
  
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• 'Heroic’ LNER worker ‘saved many lives’ trying to stop knife attack

  03-11-2025 01:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  The York Press - A mp;#147;heroicmp;#148; member of LNER rail staff who tried to stop a knife attacker on a train in Cambridgeshire and mp;#147;undoubtedly saved many peoplemp;#146;s livesmp;#148; remains in a life-threatening condition, British Transport Police has said.
  
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• 'Hero' train worker protected Huntingdon passengers from knifeman subscription

  03-11-2025 01:00 via thetimes.com
  Times Online - The suspect, a 32-year-old black British man from Peterborough, was not known to security services
  
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• Almost a quarter of a million cheaper journeys made as £1 pilot scheme is extended to 5-15-year-olds

  03-11-2025 01:00 via gov.wales
  Welsh Government - More young people will benefit from cheaper bus fares across Wales as the mp;pound;1 bus fare pilot is extended to all 5-15-year-olds from today.
  
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• Almost a quarter of a million cheaper journeys made as ?1 pilot scheme is extended to 5?15-year-olds

  03-11-2025 01:00 via gov.wales
  Welsh Government - More young people will benefit from cheaper bus fares across Wales as the ?1 bus fare pilot is extended to all 5?15-year-olds from today.
  
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• A77 campaigners outline priorities for improvements

  03-11-2025 01:00 via ayradvertiser.com
  Other Regional Press - THE A77 Campaign Team made huge strides forward when it met with Scottish Transport Minister Fiona Hyslop to outline its priority areas for improvements on the key road.
  
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• 85 passengers evacuated in major incident after train derailment at Shap in Cumbria

  03-11-2025 01:00 via itv.com
  ITV News - A train has derailed in Cumbria and a major incident has been declared.Avanti West Coast said its 4.28am service from Glasgow to Euston came off the tracks at 6.10am near the village of Shap, which is on the West Coast Main Line.
  
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