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Saturday, 27 April 2024

BBC News

• Some Tube stations close as workers strikeLondon Underground customer service managers walk out in a dispute over terms and conditions.

Financial Times

• Labour plans to retain key private sector role in Britain's nationalised railwaysParty has no proposals for state involvement in companies that own trains

The Scotsman

• ScotRail peak fares suspension could continue if trial successful – Transport Secretary Fiona HyslopCabinet secretary awaiting interim report on ticket price reduction launched in October
• ScotRail peak fares suspension could continue if trial successful – Transport Secretary Fiona HyslopCabinet secretary awaiting interim report on ticket price reduction launched in October

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• What you need to do before becoming a train driver at NorthernThe Telegraph & Argus visited Northern's office in Leeds city centre to see what tasks and tests need to be completed before someone can become a train driver.

Derby Telegraph

• 'Labour mustn't stop with the railways' readers say as big plans unveiled for DerbyThe Labour Party plans to re-nationalise Britain's railways, with Derby at its core

Other Regional Press

• Sir Keir Starmer pledges end to 'boom and bust' cycle for rail industry on visit to regionLabour's long-term strategy for the rail industry would aim to end the stop-and-start they face with their order books, said the party leader
• Rail strike dates May 2024: See the planned strike daysTrain drivers from ASLEF will go on strike towards the beginning of May 2024 across the UK

Railnews

• Analysis: GBR - is there a common ground? Labour's detailed proposals for railway reform are ambitious. They take the plans set out in Keith Williams' Rail Review and build on them, with the result that a new railway industry emerges. This will still be a hybrid industry, financially speaking, although it will hardly deserve the label 'privatised' any longer. In a nutshell, if Labour gains power, the infrastructure and core passenger services (those operated by the former franchises) will be state-owned, and administered by 'Great British Railways'. During the first five-year term of a Labour Government the core periods of the existi...