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HS2 has unrealistic timetable, says National Audit Office

The HS2 high-speed rail project has an "unrealistic timetable" and faces major cost pressures, a report by the National Audit Office has said.

These are the major North Wales projects that now hang in the balance after Brexit vote

Plans for a North Wales metro transport system, a third Menai crossing, improvements to the A55 and electrification of the North Wales coast railway line all hang in the balance after the EU referendum.

Derby workers on tenterhooks over contract worth BILLIONS

WORKERS at Bombardier's Derby factory are eagerly awaiting an announcement on who will run a key UK rail franchise - the outcome of which could result in the firm receiving orders for hundreds of new carriages.

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  • Remembering the Manchester Corporation Tramways staff of the First World War Ahead of the Somme 100 memorial event in Manchester on 1 July, Transport for Greater Manchester remembers the transport staff who served in the First World War. Manchester Corporation had 5,529 employees who enlisted to serve in the First World War and 2,900 were tramways employees, from body makers and drivers to trolley boys, whose job it was to give the driver a bell signal at the stops and help passengers on and off. Tragically, 19 employees died on 1 July 1916, the first and bloodiest day of the Battle of the Somme.  The Tramways Department commissioned war memorial plaques to comm...
  • TfL publishes latest bus safety statisticsTransport for London (TfL) has published new bus safety statistics for the Capital and confirmed details of its comprehensive Bus Safety Programme, which brings together the very latest technology, improved driver training and contract incentives for bus operators.   The latest bus safety statistics, for January to March 2016, show that 1,399 people were injured in incidents involving buses.  That represents a six per cent reduction on the previous quarter (September to December 2015) when 1,488 injuries were recorded.  Eighty-seven per cent of the injuries in the first quarter...
  • Smart ticketing could kill off paper tickets by 2024Paper train tickets could become a thing of the past within eight years under new plans to make rail passengers use their smartphone or bank card to travel instead. Smart cards, which can be topped-up online, are also being considered an option as rail bosses try to devise ways of cutting queues and costs. Orange paper tickets, which have been around for nearly 150 years, are deemed an unnecessary expensive and hugely flawed due to the small print which can be easy to smudge and hard to read. They could be on their way out by 2022, one transport insider told the Daily Mail, adding that bar cod...
  • “Too soon” to speculate Brexit effects, says BIFAUK freighters should not let the outcome of the EU Referendum affect their day-to-day business. That's the advice of the British International Freight Association (BIFA), following Britain's Brexit vote. The process of Britain officially leaving the EU could take up to two years, and BIFA says it will campaign to ensure that the UK’s visible import and export trade does not become overburdened by complicated trade procedures. Despite 51.9 per cent of voters backing Brexit at the polls, BIFA director general Robert Keen said that as things currently stand, the UK remains an EU member. “It is to...

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  • HS2 could be casualty of Brexit The implications of Brexit for the railway industry could include the abandonment, reduction or at least a delay to HS2, it is feared. Following the vote in favour of the UK leaving the European Union, the Office of Budget Responsibility will now be re-assessing national infrastructure projects, although its conclusions are not expected to be published before the autumn. Lord Tony Berkeley, who chairs the Rail Freight Group and as an industry commentator has frequently criticised the effects of successive EU Railway Packages, said:

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