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Thursday, 02 August 2012

BBC News

• Olympic bosses reject 'ghost town' claim Olympic bosses have said the message to commuters to avoid certain areas of London will not change despite claims from businesses trade has been suffering.
• Worcestershire Parkway plans progress Plans for a third railway station in Worcester have moved a step closer after receiving government backing.
• Delays at Games hotspot stationRail services to London Bridge, one of the hotspot stations during the Olympics, were delayed during the morning rush-hour.

The Telegraph

• East Lancashire Railway: take a nostalgic trip The East Lancashire Railway keeps the era of steam alive for 120,000 people every year. All aboard, says Arabella Weir.
• Virgin's Sir Richard Branson: Government must not back unrealistic West Coast rail bid 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.

ATOC

• Olympic National Rail travel bulletin: Wednesday 1 AugustWith hundreds of thousands of spectators attending Olympic events today, the railway continues to run extra and longer trains. • Train companies are providing 574,071 extra seats today,...

Network Rail

• Copycat station is a glass act
• LONDON STATIONS™ OLYMPIC PAST PUBLISHED ON VIRTUAL ARCHIVE
• CABINET SECRETARY OFFICIALLY OPENS NEW £8m STATION

London Evening Standard

• London 2012 Olympics: Boris Johnson's 'hello folks' travel chaos warnings axed from London TransportBoris Johnson™s recorded warnings of Olympic congestion on the Tube have been dropped after forecasts of overcrowding proved unfounded.

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Barging ahead with Leeds rail station entrance plansCONTRACTORS who build the new Leeds City railway station southern entrance will turn back time to get materials to the site.

Carlisle News & Star

• Union leader raises fears for rail jobs on West Coast Mainline Dozens of rail jobs could hinge on the outcome of a multi-million pound contest to pick the next company running train services on the West Coast Mainline, it has been claimed.

Other Regional Press

• Freight costs rise will have damaging impact, says MPCONCERNS have been expressed about the impact of raising the costs for freight to use the UK railway network.

Global Rail News

• 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 [...]
• œLucky escape� 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 [...]

Railnews

• 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.

Other News Sources

• Hitachi launches UK campaign focusing on Social Innovation Business products across London railway stations Global electronics company Hitachi’s European division, Hitachi Europe Ltd., has announced its new UK campaign which focuses on Hitachi’s Social Innovation Business products including construction machinery, data storage and rail
• Siemens Secures order to electrify Hawaii's first rail Transit System Honolulu rail project will reduce traffic congestion and environmental impact while boosting the economy Honolulu rail project will reduce traffic congestion and environmental impact while boosting the economy By Siemens