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Wednesday, 15 February 2012

BBC News

• Taxis banned from train stationTaxis and cars are to be banned permanently from Edinburgh Waverley Station as part of anti-terrorism measures.
• Travel time threat to rail jobsRail workers face losing their jobs if they live more than 75 minutes from new offices in Buckinghamshire, a union claims.

Financial Times

• Network Rail accused of bad move by staffNetwork Rail is to require employees at its new offices in Milton Keynes to live within an hour and 15-minute commute of the building

The Herald

• Faulty level crossing to be fixed by end of weekA FAULTY level crossing, which has had to be manned by police several times in the past six months to prevent drivers straying into the path of an oncoming train, is to be fixed before the end of this week.

The Independent

• Move home or lose job, rail staff are told Network Rail staff who live more than 75 minutes from work face losing their jobs unless they agree to move home.

The Telegraph

• Poll: should Boris Johnson control all London rail servicesThe Mayor of London is requesting the power to franchise suburban London rail services.

Press Association

• £5m rail safety move to save lives Network Rail is funding a £5 million programme to fit additional disc brakes to hundreds of road rail vehicles, the company said amid calls for safety improvement on the eighth anniversary of an accident in which four railway workers were killed by a runaway wagon.

The Mirror

• 850 Network Rail workers 'face sack' if they live too far away from workBosses say they must not live more than an hour and a quarter away from the £30million site, which replaces branches nationally

Edinburgh Evening News

• Taxis hit by Waverley ban over terror attack fearsTAXIS and cars are to be banned permanently from driving into Waverley Station amid terrorist fears ahead of the London Olympics, it emerged today.

London Evening Standard

• 10 million Tube passengers fail to claim money back for delaysMore than 10 million Tube users are missing out on refunds worth more than £20 million when their trains are delayed
• Network Rail 'to axe staff who commute too far'The company which runs the national rail network is planning to axe hundreds of staff because they live too far from the office, union bosses claim

Metro

• Network Rail's new office 'puts 850 jobs on the line'Hundreds of Network Rail staff could lose their jobs unless they live within 75 minutes of a new office complex.

Global Rail News

• Logico hauls multimodal containers for Stobart RailLogico, a division of Freightliner Ltd, recently operated a special train of new multimodal rail containers for Stobart Rail. Logico hauled the special service from Freightliner™s Garston Terminal to Freightliner™s South Wales International Terminal in Cardiff. The special consignment of multimodal rail containers will be used by Stobart Rail as it continues to expand its [...]
• Cable theft: The continuing menaceCable Theft. Like the proverbial bad penny, it™s a subject that keeps cropping up, although the monetary value concerned is somewhat higher. The continuing menace of cable theft from the national rail network, the London Underground and other metro systems shows no sign of abating – quite the reverse in fact. Issue 64 (February 2010) [...]
• Network Rail closes first Scottish level crossing this centuryNetwork Rail has officially marked the closure of Inchyra level crossing in Perthshire “ the first Scottish public crossing to close this century. The automatic half-barrier crossing has been removed from the network after Perth and Kinross Council and Network Rail worked together to create a new link road to divert traffic away from the [...]
• Union claims Network Rail is ˜to sack™ long distance staffThe Transport Salaried Staffs Association has claimed Network Rail is ‘planning to sack hundreds of staff for living too far away from their work’. The union claims ‘two out of every five staff at their London HQ will be axed this summer if they live more than 75 minutes travelling time from the rail firm’s [...]