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Sunday, 29 November 2015

BBC News

• Sir Terry Matthews: Rail electrification delays 'damaging'Delays to electrifying the rail line between Cardiff and Swansea has created a "damaging air of uncertainty", Sir Terry Matthews has said.

The Scotsman

• Qatar Airways flying high on Edinburgh routeAN INFLUX of leisure and business travellers has contributed an estimated £5 million of economic benefit to Scotland since Qatar Airways launched its Edinburgh-Doha service last year, the airline has claimed.

The Telegraph

• Jet with shattered windscreen makes emergency Heathrow landingAmerican Airlines flight from Milan to New York with 183 passengers on board forced to divert

Mail Online

• Sneezing blamed for two million car crashes, a study has revealed About a third of adults say driving is the worst time to sneeze, with seven per cent suffering a road accident as a result.

This is Money

• Stand by for take-off: D-Day looms for multi-billion-pound airport plan - David Cameron must decide...and Boris Johnson may have to lie down in front of bulldozers The Prime Minister’s hand-picked committee of MPs will make their recommendation on Tuesday on one of the most controversial decisions of our times: Heathrow or Gatwick?

Sky News

• Virgin Mortgages Heathrow Slots In £250m DealVirgin Atlantic is finalising a landmark deal that will enable it to raise hundreds of millions of pounds from its lucrative take-off and landing rights at London's Heathrow Airport.

London Evening Standard

• Paddington station evacuated after fire alertPaddington station was evacuated this morning after a fire alert. Passengers were told to leave the station at about 9.15am today when a fire alarm was triggered.

Manchester Evening News

• Middle lane hogging van latest to face action by police on M60 Police had followed the vehicle past an empty left hand lane for more than two miles when they struck

Northern Echo

• Jump in road deaths despite downward North Yorkshire trend NEW figures have revealed that road deaths across Hambleton and Richmondshire increased by more than 50 per cent last year with eleven people killed - as fatalities fell in most other areas of North Yorkshire.

Wales Online

• Lasers that are so bright they could make passenger plane pilots crash are being sold on the internet Now former police airman Dave Taylor, of the National Police Air Service, wants them banned

Other Regional Press

• Newport East AM: Ebbw Vale to Newport rail link a mustTHE success of Newport’s new Friars Walk development has shown how important it is that a rail link to Ebbw Vale is completed, a Labour Assembly Member has said.
• Congestion charge could work in Cambridge says TfL expert - if residents are prepared to pay as well A congestion charge could work in Cambridge says one of the architects of the scheme in London – but residents should not be exempt from coughing up for getting in their cars.
• Technology to cut Heathrow delays scoops top prize NATS and Lockheed Martin jointly scooped the prize for best transport innovation at the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s annual awards recently.
• Pro-Heathrow expansion group comes under fire as near identical residents' quotes issued in press releasesThe pro-Heathrow expansion campaign has been accused of getting “up to its old tricks” after press releases sent to different newspapers contained near identical quotes attributed to different residents attacking their respective MPs.
• Back Heathrow action group calls on Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab to back airport expansion plansFollowing the formation of an Elmbridge action group against noise from Heathrow, another task group has flown into action – this time calling on Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab to back plans for Heathrow expansion for a “long and fruitful relationship” with the community.
• It’s Centrebus to the rescue with a bus passLuton burns survivor Shamiam Arif, 13, was all smiles last week when she and her mum Tahira were presented with bus passes by Centrebus.
• Woman dangled legs over railway station’s platformA WOMAN who was seen dangling her legs over a train platform turned aggressive when transport officers questioned her.
• Electric road tripA LANCASHIRE car dealership is setting off on an attempt to become the first in the country to complete a 2,000-mile continental road trip in an electric car.

Rail Technology Magazine

• Borders Railway: Scotland’s symbol of a golden age On 6 September, trains returned to the Scottish Borders for the first time in 46 years. The opening of the new Borders Railway, running between Tweedbank and Edinburgh, is the longest new domestic railway built in Britain for over a century. However,…
• Teltronic Selected for Qatar’s First Tram System Teltronic, part of the Sepura Group, has been chosen to provide a radio communications solution for Qatar's first tram system, as part of the country's ambitious Education City project.
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Railway Gazette

• Mitsubishi Electric opens Indian traction equipment factory INDIA: Mitsubishi Electric Corp subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric India has opened a US$8m factory at...

Other News Sources

• Expanding Heathrow Makes Sense, Further Delay Does Not - Jacob Rees-Mogg MP"Wise and masterly inactivity" may allow many political problems to pass away but it will not solve the lack of airport capacity for London. This is needed to allow international business to flourish with the United Kingdom's companies being able to visit foreign counterparts and send goods to the wider world.