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Sir Richard Branson has complained to the Government that it risks a re-run of previous rail franchise failures if it awards the West Coast Main Line contract to an unrealistically high bid from FirstGroup.

Gatwick Airport master plan shows flights to increase by 82 every day

LAND equivalent to more than than 900 football pitches is being reserved for a second runway at Gatwick, as flights are scheduled to increase by 82 every day. The airport master plan, released last Thursday, predicts aircraft movements will hit 278,956 per year within the next ten years, compared to 248,679 in 2011/12, and the airport will hit its current capacity by 2030.

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  • Planes may pay for noise over Heathrow Residents under Heathrow's flightpath could be offered thousands of pounds in compensation if a future government gives the go-ahead for a third runway at Europe's busiest airport.

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  • Ryanair bid will capture 90% of Irish market: Aer Lingus bossAer Lingus chief executive Christoph Mueller warned that a successful bid by Ryanair to buy the carrier would result in monopoly conditions reminiscent of the days when his own airline dominated Irish travel.Related StoriesFacebook's float 'fiasco' costs Swiss bank £227mFamilies are squeezed by rising prices and static wagesRegulator backed in row on NIE investmentEurozone inflation is steady for third monthFacebook's float 'fiasco' costs Swiss bank Ł227m

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  • Pupils™ 20mph plea to driversTWENTY is plenty. That was the message from children at a Freckleton school who have welcomed a new 20mph limit introduced on the town’s residential roads.

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  • London Gateway chosen by paper recycling exporterA company specialising in exporting waste paper for recycling has announced that it will be using London Gateway when the port opens in 2013.From late next year, the new deepwater container facility will be in operation for multimodal freight and Cycle Link UK believes using the port will enhance its sustainability while reducing its carbon footprint by cutting down on its road transport needs."We export around a thousand containers every week, so anything we can do to reduce road haulage and its environmental impact is a good thing," explained Cycle Link UK shipping manager ...

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  • A virtual tour around Sochi™s Games trainsRussian Railways has launched an online virtual tour of the trains which will be transporting spectators and athletes at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
  • Chiltern helps save bubble car from scrap yardThe fledgling Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway, located on the site of the former Cynheidre colliery and which was Britain’s first operating public railway authorised by an act of Parliament, has taken delivery of former Chiltern bubble car 55019. Saving 55019 from being cut up was only possible after considerable help from Chiltern Railways who [...]
  • śLucky escapeť for driver after vandals place concrete lids on rail lineA British Transport Police (BTP) officer described a train driver in Darlington as having a “lucky escape” after narrowly avoiding a collision with two concrete troughing lids. The driver slammed on the emergency brakes and managed to stop the passenger service, which had been travelling at 40mph, as it approached Dinsdale station on July 26. [...]
  • Ricoh station plans up and runningAfter many false starts, the long-awaited go-ahead for a station serving Coventry’s Ricoh Arena has been approved by Coventry City Council. Work on the station, situated on the Coventry to Nuneaton route, will start this December and be finished for December 2013. Lack of a rail connection to the popular sporting venue, which has been [...]
  • The history of London™s Olympic stations revealedSince London’s first Olympics in 1908, the capital’s rail network has been at the centre of the Games’ success. A new section in Network Rail’s virtual archive, which was launched in February, is celebrating the role of some of the stations which will be used by millions of spectators throughout the event. Architectural plans and [...]
  • Docklands Light Railway usage up by more than halfDocklands Light Railway (DLR) passenger figures are up 65 per cent with extra Olympic traffic. Other statistics released by LOCOG show that the number of vehicles on London’s streets have fallen by 17 per cent since the stat of the Games. Organisers have again predicted an extremely busy day on the London Underground, London Overground [...]

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  • Union urges investigation of Underground fault The RMT is calling for an investigation into the cause of a major failure on the London Underground Central Line, in which a wheel became allegedly welded to the track after a brake failure. It is one of several Underground problems which have occurred in the last two days. There is no service on the District Line this morning (Wednesday) west of Earls Court because of a signal failure at Turnham Green.

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