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Saturday, 14 October 2017

BBC News

• Gatwick Express services cancelled in case of leavesTimetables have been revised during the day and no trains will run overnight.

The Guardian

• Great Western mainline: what does a £10bn rail upgrade buy you?The huge project overran and cost far more than planned, but passengers can expect more services and faster journeys

City AM

• Transport for London could cash in on open data expertise through new consulting armTransport for London (TfL) has shed more light on the role of its consultancy arm in the works, saying today that it is exploring new commercial avenues through releasing open data.
• This London Tube map shows how much house prices have changed in the capital over the past 10 yearsYou may already be poring over the festive Underground map in anticipation of Christmas (even though Halloween hasn't happened yet).
• Wider Night Tube rollout draws a step closer with upgrade of Circle and Hammersmith & City LinesThe wider rollout of Night Tube services across the London Underground has drawn a step closer, as Transport for London (TfL) said today that upgrade work on the sub-surface Tube lines has progressed.

Daily Express

• Taxpayer shells out an 'outrageous' £84million for Southern Rail strike action chaosTAX payers face an £84million bill to pay for the Southern rail strike misery, it has been revealed.

Plymouth Herald

• The 75mph upgrade which could improve train journeys to PlymouthTask force hopes Government will grasp ‘opportunity of a lifetime’

Other Regional Press

• Ancaster railway station and The Poacher Line were among the prize winners at a rail awards.The Poacher Line Community Rail Partnership, which runs between Nottingham and Skegness, received three prestigious awards at the Association of Community Rail Partnership’s (ACoRP) Community Rail Awards.
• Residents fear station revamp will ruin their communityTHE scale of Oxford Station's £125m redevelopment has been increased to lure private investors after Network Rail warned there was a lack of funding for the project.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Brand new Tube signalling successfully tested for the first timeThe transformation of London Underground’s sub-surface lines has taken a significant step forward, with multiple test trains running on the brand new signalling system for the first time in London.   The new computer-based signalling and control system from Thales will allow trains to run closer together, meaning a more frequent service, shorter waiting times and a massive boost in capacity for the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines.    Customers will start to benefit from the improvements from as early as next year, when the first section of t...

Rail Magazine

• Record levels of private investment in UK railPrivate companies invested a total of £925 million in Britain’s rail network in 2016-17, the highest figure recorded since 2006-07.
• Eight Bombardier-built Class 345 Aventras accepted for TfL RailFourteen Class 345s built for Crossrail so far says TfL, with eight accepted for passenger traffic.

Rail Technology Magazine

• Councillors consider £500m Leeds station upgradeProposals to make £500m worth of changes to Leeds Station to build a central hub for HS2 have been discussed by councillors this week. The plans, which relate to both the high-speed rail and Northern Powerhouse projects, include an increase in the number of entrances and the creation of a...