Passengers welcomed to new Scottish station
The line between Glasgow Central and East Kilbride has reopened after work on a ?143 million scheme to electrify the railway, which has also gained a rebuilt station at Hairmyres.
The frequency of trains on a branch line in Cornwall is planned to almost double from eight to 15 a day on 20 September, Railnews can reveal. The upgrade on the Newquay line is part of the developing Mid-Cornwall Metro project, which has been underway for the past couple of years.
The Prime Minister is welcoming European Union leaders to Lancaster House in London for what promises to an historic summit. Although a number of items are on his agenda, including the use of electronic passport gates by British citizens at EU ports, a security pact and a ‘veterinary deal’ to ease the rules on food trading, campaigners have written to Sir Keir Starmer urging him to include international rail in his discussions.
Former Labour minister David Blunkett is set to unveil a 16 billion-pound plan for railways in Yorkshire today. It outlines investments in new and accessible stations as well as improving the system as a whole to connect cities more effectively over the next 15 years.
Double decker trains could run to London, according to rolling stock builder Alstom, which has supplied two-deck TGVs to countries like France for many years. The British structure gauge is smaller than on continental Europe and could not accommodate such trains, but HS1 and the international platforms at London St Pancras were built to a more generous profile.
Transport for London has revealed that it no longer uses social media as a way of communicating to passengers, after power cuts caused rail services to be cancelled and many central London stations closed. The power failures have been attributed to a National Grid fault, but TfL was criticised by passenger watchdog London TravelWatch for not making the situation clear to its passengers
Transport for London has attributed widespread disruption on its railways to a ‘voltage dip’ caused by a fault on National Grid’s network. Services on most lines are running normally again this morning, but a transport watchdog has criticised TfL for a lack of information during the power cuts.