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Thursday, 18 April 2013

BBC News

• Cambridge beats Oxford in DfT cycling survey Cambridge has retained its "cycling capital of the UK" title after statistics from the Department for Transport were released.
• Derby railway station £2.2m facelift completed A £2.2m project to modernise the entrance and improve facilities at Derby's railway station has been completed.
• VIDEO: London road bridges 'a safety risk'Transport for London has admitted there has been under-investment in the city's roads and bridges.
• Tube stations shut after power cutA number of central London Tube stations close following a power failure.
• BMW to assemble Mini cars in IndiaBMW is to begin building the Mini in India, in a move that suggests confidence in the country's emerging car market.
• Carmaker Opel to close German plantGerman carmaker Opel announces the planned closure of one of its factories by the end of 2014 after a deal with unions falls through.

Financial Times

• EasyJet goes to Next for new chairmanVeteran retailer John Barton will have to manage budget airline’s strained relationship with its founder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou

The Herald

• More UK travellers use no-frills airlines Low-fare airline travellers now make up the majority of passengers who fly from the UK.
• Stagecoach to bid for Docklands railway franchise PERTH-based transport operator Stagecoach has been shortlisted to bid for the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) franchise by Transport for London.

The Telegraph

• Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted face regulatory shake-up London’s top three airports are facing the biggest regulatory shake-up for a quarter of a century, with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) poised to introduce different pricing regimes at each of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted.

Belfast Telegraph

• Barton joins the board at easyJeteasyJet plc says that John Barton will join its board on May 1 as a non-executive director and will take over from Sir Mike Rake as non-executive chairman. Sir Mike will stand down from the board on the same date. Barton is also chairman of Next plc and Catlin Group Limited, the international insurance underwriters.Related StoriesBank plan a mixed success: IMFMillets reprieved as JD Sports fights to return to the blackExecutive 'must act to bolster building industry'E-reader sales hold up against new tabletsBurberry beats the forecasts via China    

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Airbus work on Beluga replacementAIRBUS may use the A330-200 as the basis for a new freight carrying aircraft to replace its five A300-600ST Beluga oversize transports.

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Nutty professors are bright sparks at electric buses launchAn army of mini mad scientists was on hand to launch a new fleet of supercharged electric busses.

Doncaster Free Press

• Bus service saved for Isle A bus service in the Isle of Axholme has been saved from closure.

Sunderland Echo

• Nissan offers free repairs on thousands of Sunderland-built Qashqai vehicles over engine faultNISSAN is to carry out free repair work on thousands of Sunderland-built cars after discovering a fault with an engine part.

Other Regional Press

• Selby MP Nigel Adams calls for HS2 payouts Selby MP Nigel Adams has pledged his backing of proper compensation for those affected by the controversial HS2 rail plans.
• Baginton's Electric Railway Museum opens in May THE Electric Railway Museum near Coventry opens next month for the first time this year.

Campaign for Better Transport

• Say no to the EU allowing in mega trucks16 Apri 2013: EU rules could soon be changed to allow in mega trucks, with greater risks to cyclists and pedestrians and more carbon emissions. read more

Global Rail News

• Bluebell joins rail networkSaturday, 23rd March saw the Bluebell Railway open its long awaited extension into East Grinstead. Writes Clive Kessell The celebrations took place in a snow storm as the first public train steamed southwards towards Sheffield Park. The new Bluebell station, slightly south of the recently re-built Southern station, has yet to be completed as a [...]
• Invensys awarded milestone resignalling contractsNetwork Rail has handed Invensys Rail two contracts worth £53 million under signalling framework agreements announced last year. The work covers the resignalling of Watford Junction Station and the re-locking and immunisation of life-expired signalling equipment, interlockings and control systems around Reading. The £33.5 million Watford Junction project, which covers 143 signalling equivalent units (SEUs) [...]
• Aeromóvel vehicles delivered to World Cup host cityThe first two light rail vehicles for Porto Alegre’s elevated Aeromóvel line has arrived in the city ahead of the system’s official opening later this year. Aeromovel is an atmospheric railway system developed by Coester Group, São Leopoldo, with rail operator Trensurb, which once complete will connect Salgado Filho International Airport and the Estação Aeroporto [...]
• Shortlist announced for DLR franchiseTransport for London (TfL) has drawn up a shortlist of companies fighting to take control of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) franchise. Bidders announced today include current operators Serco, Stagecoach Rail Projects Ltd, a joint venture between Keolis UK and Amey and a joint venture comprising Go Ahead and Colas. DLR acting director Rory O’Neill [...]
• Tube art sells for £158,000Two linocut prints of the London Underground by artist Cyril Edward Power have sold at auction for £158,000. Whence and Whither? and Tube Station made £97,250 and £61,250 respectively at Bonhams Print sale yesterday (April 16). Both pieces date back to the 1930s and depict scenes from London’s world famous underground metro network. Whence and [...]
• What to see at Railtex 2013 #4In the run up to Railtex, Rail.co and the rail engineer will be looking at the must-see innovations on display at this year’s event. Ellis Patents Stand D72 Ellis Patents, the world’s leading cable cleat manufacturer, will be launching a tamper proof cleat at Railtex 2013, which it says will go a long way to [...]

Railnews

• '51M' councils spend over £1m opposing HS2 EIGHTEEN local councils between London and Staffordshire and Leicestershire opposing plans for HS2 have already spent

Other News Sources

• Coventry bus route changes causes a stir MORE than 400 people have signed a petition opposing bus route changes in Coventry.
• London's Heathrow Airport has been named among the top ten world airports at the World Airport Awards 2013. Heathrow came tenth overall in the awards, organised by aviation research organisation Skytrax, but was credited with the best airport shopping in the world while the new Terminal 5 took the world's best airport terminal title.
• Transport for London set to outsource transport modelling contract It is searching for a supplier to provide transport modelling software on behalf of the Greater London Authority
• CWT aims to reduce travel stressNew tool to highlight “hidden costs” of business travel for companies