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Monday, 29 August 2016

BBC News

• Night Tube: Journeying to work when everyone else is drunkAlongside the boisterous revellers on London's first regular all-night Tube service were a sprinkling of more introverted, nocturnal travellers.

Financial Times

• Union boss blames cuts for rail strikesMick Cash, head of the RMT, insists trains will be less safe without guards

The Guardian

• Richard Branson should lose his knighthood, says John McDonnellIn wake of ‘Traingate’ row, shadow chancellor says Virgin founder is a tax exile who should lose his UK honourJeremy Corbyn’s closest ally has called for Sir Richard Branson to be stripped of his knighthood, days after his company Virgin released CCTV footage casting doubt on the Labour leader’s claim of train overcrowding.John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, used an interview in the Sunday Mirror to call Branson, who lives in the Caribbean, a “tax exile who thinks he can try and intervene and undermine our democracy”. Continue reading...
• Virgin broke own rules by releasing Corbyn CCTV, document showsLeaked internal policy document raises questions over why Virgin and Richard Branson released images The decision by Virgin Trains to release CCTV images of Jeremy Corbyn on one of its services after he complained on video about the journey being “completely ram-packed” was in breach of the company’s own policies, the Guardian can reveal.The company handed images, which appeared to show the Labour leader walking past empty seats before sitting on the train’s floor, to the media earlier this week in a move that embarrassed Corbyn. Continue reading...

The Huffington Post

• Pete Waterman Called As Expert In BBC Railway Nationalisation Debate, Gets A ‘Lot Of Stick’BBC radio listeners were baffled on Saturday morning when music producer Pete Waterman was used in a debate about renationalistion of the railways.

Edinburgh Evening News

• Rail misery as late trains are scrapped Rail travellers are to be hit with even more misery – with trains scrapped in the evening on the main route between Edinburgh and Glasgow amid fresh engineering chaos.

London Evening Standard

• Waterloo station fire: trackside blaze sparks severe delays to train servicesA trackside fire at Waterloo has caused severe disruption to trains coming into and out of the station.

Bucks Free Press

• Train services to be cancelled due to 'shortage of drivers' A number of Chiltern Railway trains in and out of London were cancelled today due to a

Railway Gazette

• Test a quick-assembly rail heating system ELTHERM: Visitors will be able to test their skills installing different rail and point heating...
• Rail freight news in briefWhat is described as the first train from China to Afghanistan left Nantong in eastern China’s...

Other News Sources

• Leicester tops 'least railway stations per population' pollLeicester tops a list of places in Britain with the fewest number of railway stations per population, Press Association research has revealed.