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Tuesday, 23 August 2016

BBC News

• First weekend of Night Tube has 100k usersMore than 100,000 journeys were completed by people using the Night Tube during its first weekend of operation, Transport for London says.

The Telegraph

• BMX rider takes extraordinary hit to the face in attempt to skip rail crossing barrier

City AM

• More trouble for Southern: Card payment failure hits rush hourCustomers of Southern Rail, already fuming over ongoing service delays and then strike action, were dealt another blow on the morning rush hour commute.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Thieves steal tram undercarriages weighing FIVE TONNES from Wrexham yard The bogies, as they are known, were taken from the Five Crosses Industrial Estate in Minera

London Evening Standard

• 'Don't call your ex': Night Tube 'rules' appear on Underground to remind late night revellers how to behaveComedy stickers reminding people how to behave on the new Night Tube services have mysteriously appeared in train carriages.

Nottingham Evening Post

• Centuries old tram tracks uncovered by Nottingham railway station Historic tram lines thought to be a century old have been dug up in the latest work at Station Street in Nottingham.

Other Regional Press

• Merseyrail accused of discrimination by disabled passenger made to wait in boxMerseyrail have been accused of disability discrimination after a passenger was left 'humiliated' and 'embarrassed' after being made to wait in a box while waiting for a train in Southport.
• Anger at railway footbridge delayA LONG-awaited new footbridge at Newport railway station planned to be built by March 2017, has been delayed. The footbridge, linking Devon Place and Queensway, would replace a graffitied and secluded subway where two sex attacks took place in 2011.
• Land for potential rail routes protected in South Derbyshire local planThe document, which sets out a blueprint for development in the district for the next decade, notes the areas of potential development of railway stations in Castle Gresley, Drakelow and Stenson Fields, near Derby.
• Seaford’s petition plea for end to rail miseryLocal residents are calling on Chris Grayling MP to take action as there are still only a handful of Seaford-Brighton train services running despite the fact that Southern Rail’s ‘emergency timetable’ was supposed to end on August 7.
• Work set to begin on new rail interchangeThe project will include an onside rail freight terminal suitable for 750m freight trains and it will have direct connection into the National Freight Network and will be a three to three and a half year programme in various phases.
• Haley Sharpe Design helps to breathe life into Mail Rail exhibition For years the old Mail Rail tunnels under London have been gathering cobwebs. Now a Leicester design agency is helping bring them back to life for the public to enjoy.

Construction Enquirer

• Former Skanska boss to head Galliford Try’s HS2 team bidIndustry veteran David Blackburn has been appointed managing director of Momentum Infrastructure, a joint venture comprising Dragados, Galliford Try and Hochtief.

The Business Desk

• Rehaul at North Yorkshire rail stationA REHAUL of the railway station buildings in Knaresborough got underway yesterday.

Other News Sources

• These 2 charts show why your train commute in Britain is hellTrain journeys in the UK have sky-rocketed since the early 1990s while investment has failed to keep pace, explaining why commuting on the train can be such an over-crowded, horrible experience.
• Costain JV picks up final Crossrail contractA joint venture of Alstom Transport (UK), TSO and Costain has been awarded a £26m contract to build a rail maintenance depot in Plumstead.