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    Richard Bowker sums up the DfT well

    Richard Bowker has put out a tweet tonight which tells us everything thats wrong with the DfT management of the Rail Industry. Industry leaders know this but wont speak out but hopefully Lousie Haigh will seek some advice from old industry sages about what needs to change in DafT even if there...
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    No Horsham-Peterborough service Saturday 2nd March

    Thameslink have a train crew shortage tomorro so HRH-PBO being reduced to a HRH- RDH service with a Southern service forward which will be a 4 car. Rather late advice and journey planners have both original and modified services showing currently. Im surmising this is related to current dispute...
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    HS2 update Transport Select Committee 10/1/24

    Sir John Thompson was at the TSC today this is my precis from listening to it as no hansard update has yet been issued Reports civils are over 50% complete now. Tenders back for railway systems and will be awarded by summer. Doesn't see Handsacre as an issue with stopping of phase 2 - thats...
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    HS2 6th Monthly Report Nov 23

    Latest update to parliament published hs2-6-monthly-report-to-parliament-november-2023 Six months on not much new on when it will open still 2029-2033 but it will now cost significantly more Still using 2019 prices is becoming a joke but main increase is Well given the railway systems have...
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    Could the railways be renationalised under Labour and what should happen in the meantime?

    Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/kings-speech-rail.257351/ Quite frankly the less they do the better as it will force Labours hand to either say its going to renationalise or not
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    UK announces £680m for new high-speed electric railway in Turkey

    I know its only guaranteeing finance that has to be paid back at some point but a bit of irony here that they are prepared to underwrite this project but sit on the sidelines in the UK in progressing further electrification or getting on with HS2...
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    Transport Select Committee 21/6

    Merriman appeared at TSC today https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/13652d80-d1da-4391-b1c8-c71ff620f57f A couple of key points i picked up today 1. Going to amend current NRC contracts to give some incentive to operators to take revenue risk by enhancing services where they see opportunity...
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    Can a simpler station be built for HS2 at Euston?

    mods note - split from this thread indeed ditch the architects and provide functional infrastructure
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    Future rolling stock provision for Chiltern franchise?

    Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/prior-information-notice-chiltern-services.246470/ Of course if common sense prevailed CAF or Stadler would have been given a three figure production run of their designs to deal with the cliff edge looming with the DMU fleet but...
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    Minimum service levels for passenger rail during strike action

    Dft have put out a consultation paper on this tonight with another paper on strike impact on passengers https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/minimum-service-levels-for-passenger-rail-during-strike-action...
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    Harper confirms GBR to go ahead

    Mark Harper gave the George Bradshaw address to Rail Partners tonight. Full text not yet released but papers are reporting https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/07/uk-train-tickets-could-be-priced-like-airline-seats-in-rail-shake-up
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    Transpennine Express should be sorted out and merged with Northern

    Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/transpennine-express-boss-apologises-for-poor-services-bbc.242543 TPE is in desperate need of being sorted out and mist logically now it needs to be merged with Northern and Rail North Partnership be given a hand in getting it...
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    Merriman at Transport Committee 18/1

    deleted 1674045152 Huw appeared at TSC this morning reasonable outing and certainly picks up on a lot of issues shared across the forum. He has five goals for Rail https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/d3a22326-aa75-42c8-8acf-2f64289787d1 Hansard lags by a few hours 1. Sort out industrial...
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    Large transformer on its side at Zidani Most in Slovenia

    Going to be an interesting recovery job https://twitter.com/FlywheelMedia1/status/1612495892858159104 https://www.24ur.com/novice/crna-kronika/tovor-padel-z-vagona-oseba-huje-poskodovana.html At least they are working past the incident wouldn't happen in this country
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    Train drivers offered pay rise in bid to end strikes

    From BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64191654 Suspect this will get short shrift from ASLEF exec too many conditions
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    State poised to take over more train operators?

    DT running an article tomorrow which says I suspect its a contrived article to warn off the DfT from thinking about transferring anymore operators to OLR.
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    The Growth Plan - Rail Projects

    Governments fiscal event announcement released a document called The Growth Plan which refers to specific infrastructure projects for rail the list is. Nothing particularly new other than a commitment to accelerate delivery of the projects by a radical overhaul of the planning process. Kwarteng...
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    Chiltern considers Turbo future

    Modern Railways Newsletter today are reporting that Chiltern are to run a market testing exercise https://www.modernrailways.com/article/chiltern-considers-turbo-future The hybrid conversion is sensible but is surely only a short term solution and that electrification should be the long term...
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    Decarbonising Transport A Better, Greener Britain One Year On

    DfT released this glossy publication last week telling us what they have been doing and their plans https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1090420/Decarbonising-transport-one-year-on-review.pdf This was there update for the rail sector...
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    "Bailing out the TOCs: How the Tory Government saved - and boosted - the TOCs profits" - RMT Briefing paper

    RMT have released a report into profitability of train operators since franchises ended https://issuu.com/rmtunion/docs/bailing_out_the_tocs_-_27.06.22/2 In the associated press release TORY CONTRACTS BOOSTED RAIL FAT CATS’ PROFITS They say Looks like they counting performance fees and im...

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