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• Rolling stock strategy: Rail Minister lays out long-term vision for UK's trains

  26-11-2025 01:00 via railmagazine.com
  Rail Magazine - Rail Minister Lord Hendy has given the clearest indication of what the upcoming rolling stock and infrastructure strategy will contain, and the thought processes behind it.
  
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• What IndiGo’s airport chaos says about Indian aviation

  09-12-2025 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Also in this newsletter: Parliament to debate the revision of electoral rolls, and Farooq Adammp;#146;s mantra
  
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• Village bus shelter gets artistic makeover

  09-12-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - A town's bus shelter has been given an artistic makeover marking the coronation of King Charles III.
  
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• Upgrade work complete at Harwich International railway station

  09-12-2025 01:00 via railuk.com
  Rail UK - Train operator Greater Anglia has completed a mp;pound;1 million investment programme to improve facilities at Harwich International railway station.
  
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• Tram strikes set for December and New Year's Eve

  09-12-2025 01:00 via bbc.com
  BBC News - Tram drivers are striking on key dates across the upcoming festive period, including New Years Eve.
  
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• Tony Lodge: How Conservatives can improve the Railways Bill in the national interest

  09-12-2025 01:00 via conservativehome.com
  Other News Sources - This time next year, the governmentmp;#39;s Railways Bill will have cleared its parliamentary stages and become law. Today will see the Billmp;#39;s Second Reading in the Commons. It will bring most passenger trains under Whitehall control (in a new state-run body to be called Great British Railways (GBR)) for the first time since British Rail was abolished in the early 1990s.
  
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• The rolling stock strategy ball gets rolling

  09-12-2025 01:00 via railmagazine.com
  Rail Magazine - Now that the dust has settled on publication of the Railways Bill, in this issue our columnists bring you their analysis and opinion on the good and the bad, the clear and the unclear, the obstacles and opportunities contained within its pages.
  
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• The battle for Sheringham bus shelter: protesters defiant as bailiffs sent in

  09-12-2025 01:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - Norfolk county council wants to demolish a mp;#39;belovedmp;#39; 1950s bus shelter in Sheringham, but campaigners are staging a 24/7 sit-in
  
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• Storm Bram: Scotrail releases list of delays and speed limits to services amid weather warnings

  09-12-2025 01:00 via dailyrecord.co.uk
  Daily Record - Storm Bram could bring winds of up to 90mph in parts of northwest Scotland and travellers have been urged to plan ahead in case of disruptions
  
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• South West bus service improvements funding announced

  09-12-2025 01:00 via somersetcountygazette.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - Millions of passengers across the South West are set to benefit from improvements to their daily journeys.
  
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• Rename ‘home-to-school transport’ to tackle spiralling costs, MPs told

  09-12-2025 01:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - Costs in England have now risen to mp;pound;2.3bn a year, with local authorities arguing eligible pupils donmp;#146;t always need a mp;#145;door-to-door taxi servicemp;#146;mp;#147;Home-to-school transportmp;#148; should be renamed mp;#147;assisted travel to schoolmp;#148; to help manage parental expectations, MPs on the public accounts committee have been told.While councils are committed to helping children entitled to support to get to school, it does not have to be mp;#147;a d
  
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• Railway reforms in spotlight at Second Reading of Bill

  09-12-2025 01:00 via railnews.co.uk
  Railnews -The Bill which will create Great British Railways is being debated in the House of Commons, as the Railways Bill receives its Second Reading. The Government has announced that the GBR identity will start to appear on trains and stations in the spring.
  
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• Rail telecoms specialist secures funding to support growth - company plays 'an important role in delivering the skills the UK needs to develop the future rail network'

  09-12-2025 01:00 via insidermedia.com
  Other News Sources - A Doncaster-based business that designs telecoms systems for the UKmp;#39;s rail network has secured funding to invest in new technology and create jobs.
  
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• Police cuts putting rail staff and passengers ‘at risk’

  09-12-2025 01:00 via railnews.co.uk
  Railnews -Rail unions are warning that staff and passengers are being put at risk by repeated budget reductions which have left fewer British Transport Police officers. The British Transport Police Authority meets in two days from now, when members will be told that the number of officers on patrol has fallen by almost a third since 2009, and that more than 500 posts are currently set to disappear by the end of the current financial year.
  
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• Planning application 'last thing in toolbox' for Bradford Council to retain tunnel

  09-12-2025 01:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus - A SIX-year-old planning application is the only thing in Bradford Councilmp;#146;s mp;#147;toolboxmp;#148; that it can use to stop the filling of Queensbury Tunnel mp;#150; Councillors have been told.
  
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• Photos show inside of UK's new £400m trains as first enters service

  09-12-2025 01:00 via express.co.uk
  Daily Express - Officials say there is more leg room and better Wi-Fi for customers riding the state-of-the-art fleet.
  
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• Oliver Coppard reveals 'virtuous circle' hope for Doncaster Sheffield Airport investment

  09-12-2025 01:00 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  Yorkshire Post - Money generated from the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport and the creation of an associated sustainable aviation and advanced manufacturing hub next to it can be part of a ?virtuous circle? helping to fund further public investment in the site, Oliver Coppard has suggested.
  
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• MP meets group campaigning to reopen Borders railway line

  09-12-2025 01:00 via newsandstar.co.uk
  Carlisle News & Star - MP Julie Minns has met with a group campaigning to reopen a closed rail route.
  
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• Metrolink Christmas strike back on as union warns over driver fatigue

  09-12-2025 01:00 via business-live.co.uk
  Birmingham Post - Some 320 tram drivers will walk out in a dispute over working patterns and rest breaks
  
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• Mayor backs electric bus upgrade for three North East routes

  09-12-2025 01:00 via hexham-courant.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - 29 electric buses are set to be rolled out on three of the regionmp;#39;s busiest routes.
  
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• Lower Thames Crossing campaigners slam £11billion cost

  09-12-2025 01:00 via thurrockgazette.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - CAMPAIGNERS have branded the proposed Lower Thames Crossing a mp;#39;drain on the economymp;#39; after its estimated cost surged to mp;pound;11 billion, sparking fears of higher tolls and wasted investment.
  
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• Look familiar? New design for nationalised trains revealed

  09-12-2025 01:00 via news.sky.com
  Sky News - A mp;#39;strikingmp;#39; new design for UK trains has been revealed by the transport secretary - but you may well think it looks familiar.
  
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• Kenneth Gibson calls for improvements after Ayrshire rail disruption

  09-12-2025 01:00 via irvinetimes.com
  Other Regional Press - CUNNINGHAME North MSP Kenneth Gibson has called for major rail service improvements after disruption on the lines between North Ayrshire and Glasgow.
  
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• How SMEs could deliver for the rail industry

  09-12-2025 01:00 via news.railbusinessdaily.com
  Rail Business Daily - Ryan Anderson is Global Growth mp; Commercial Strategy Director at Anturas. An experienced service delivery specialist, he spent over eight years at Network Rail, before enjoying a stint at a Tier 1 contractor.
  
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• Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future

  09-12-2025 01:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - Livery for renationalised railway features red, white and blue alongside familiar double arrow symbolNo matter how much train fares cost under Great British Railways, no one can accuse the government of wasting money on an expensive redesign.The logo, branding and livery for the impending renationalised and reformed railway will be unveiled by ministers at London Bridge on Tuesday. It is red, white and, yes, blue. Continue reading...
  
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• Government reveals GBR branding as rail reform legislation debated in Parliament

  09-12-2025 01:00 via news.railbusinessdaily.com
  Rail Business Daily - The Department for Transport (DfT) says passengers will get their first look at the mp;#39;future of Britainmp;#39;s railwaysmp;#39; today (9 December 2025), as branding for Great British Railways (GBR) is revealed and landmark legislation to reform the railway is debated in Parliament.
  
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• GBR: improvements train operators in public ownership are making for customers

  09-12-2025 01:00 via gov.uk
  Department for Transport - Train operators in public ownership are demonstrating they are putting passengers first, by delivering customer improvements.
  
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• GBR brand unveiled

  09-12-2025 01:00 via modernrailways.com
  Modern Railways - The Government launched Great British Railwaysmp;#39; branding on 9 December - the day the Railways Bill is debated in the House of Commons.
  
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• Flight chaos brings India’s biggest airline back to earth

  09-12-2025 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Low-cost carrier IndiGomp;#146;s cancellation of thousands of flights prompts passenger fury and regulator scrutiny
  
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• Exclusive: Londoners face 5.8 rise in Tube fares despite national rail tickets price freeze

  09-12-2025 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  London Evening Standard - Mayor says it is mp;#39;fairmp;#39; that TfL fares increase above inflation in return for mp;pound;2.2bn of Government investment
  
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