Chris Grayling offers digital future to north
Transport secretary Chris Grayling is releasing up to £5 million of investment from a £450 million Digital Railway fund so that Network Rail can investigate options for upgrading the Transpennine route for more efficient digital operation. He is telling a meeting of business leaders in Manchester today that “we are about to see a digital revolution in our railways, and we want the north to lead the way. But Labour shadow transport minister Rachael Maskell said passengers in the region ‘won’t be fooled’, because electric trains would be able to accelerate rapidly and would be ‘environmentally cleaner’.
Latest rail strikes condemned as ‘opportunistic’A new wave of strikes called by the RMT in the continuing disputes over train staffing has been condemned by the Rail Delivery Group as ‘needless’ and ‘opportunistic’. Two 24-hour walkouts are being staged by the RMT on 3 and 5 October, affecting four operators simultaneously for the first time. Operators and the union have all expressed their ‘disappointment’, and Mick Cash of the RMT repeated that his union remained available for ‘meaningful discussions’.
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