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Tuesday, 16 May 2017

BBC News

• Southern Rail: Latest talks with RMT adjournedThe rail firm and the RMT union are to

Financial Times

• Labour mayors demand high-speed rail in northern EnglandBurnham and Rotheram say ‘Crossrail for north’ greater priority than London’s Crossrail 2

Belfast Telegraph

• A rail plan that we can all agree makes senseThe annual Usdaw conference, held in Blackpool last week, overwhelmingly supported a proposition calling for a major expansion of UK-wide rail infrastructure, including a North Channel rail tunnel link.

London Evening Standard

• Bank holiday travel chaos in August as Waterloo and London Bridge shutA major clash of engineering works will cause one of the biggest ever closures of London rail services over a bank holiday weekend.
• Circle, Metropolitan, Piccadilly and Hammersmith and City lines: Tube commuters hit with delays as four lines disrupted in rush hourCommuters were tonight hit with major rush hour delays after trains on part of three Tube lines were shut down.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Flights boost raises hopes for new rail stationBusiness leaders hope the launch of extra flights between the Highlands and Amsterdam will help fast-track the construction of a rail station to link Inverness Airport and the city centre.

Other Regional Press

• Rail firm now on track to star for new charityA GENEROUS rail operator has played fairy godmother to a unique charity - thanks to one of its staff.
• Metro mayors seek party leader support for North West rail investmentNewly elected metro mayors Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram want to improve rail links in the North West

Rail Technology Magazine

• More than a train: India invests in Japanese high-speed rail Construction of a highly ambitious bullet train in western India is slated to begin in 2018. With a loan from Japan, the $14.5bn project aims to replicate the world-famous Japanese Shinkansen technology and dramatically slash journey times across Ind…
• Rail Technical Strategy requires scale and ambition 'never seen before'The Rail Technical Strategy (RTS) is of a scale and ambition that the industry has not seen before, but ultimately is not a massive ask and still doesn’t compare to other sectors, such as aerospace and automotive, in terms of the funding required, the RSSB’s Guy Woodroffe has...
• Southern and RMT return to negotiating tableTalks between Southern and RMT are set to resume today in the latest attempt to resolve the bitter and long-lasting dispute between the operator and the union, which has already resulted in 31 days’ worth of strikes. Both parties met in April but, after talks broke down, the RMT confirmed...
• Cancelled or delayed trains hit national 14-year record highThe proportion of trains cancelled or significantly late (CaSL) in the last quarter of 2016-17 was the highest-ever nationally since 2002-03 and the highest in London and the south-east sector (LSE) for over 15 years, ORR figures have revealed. In Q4, almost 4% of services were either cancelled...

Railnews

• Metrolink outage �not cyber attack� A control room failure which brought the Manchester Metrolink system to a standstill on Sunday was not connected with the cyber attacks which have damaged National Health Service systems, according to Transport for Greater Manchester.The fault is now thought to have been identified and tram services are running normally today.

Railway Gazette

• DHL opens centre to manage Germany – Far East rail freightGERMANY: DHL Global Forwarding has opened a central China Rail Competence Centre in Stuttgart to...