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...“I cannot accept this railway line being left in this perennial state of chaos.”...
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...The Aslef union on Wednesday announced a programme of one-day rolling strikes in April and May with the aim of increasing pressure on 16 train companies for a pay rise....
...Train companies are technically in charge of making rolling stock orders, but their budgets for these are set by the government....
...The HS2 line between London and Birmingham has led to a fourfold increase in planning applications for homes, office and commercial buildings around the railway’s new stations in the West Midlands, according...
...The parent company of Mexican rail company Ferromex, Grupo México, declined to comment....
...But the recommendations of the 2021 Williams review, including for a “guiding mind” overseeing both services and infrastructure in the form of Great British Railways, have yet to be enacted....
...It does get a bit William Blake at times, I admit. “Marks of woe” on “every face” tends overwhelmingly to be the case at about 8.45am midweek. Zoning out is a life skill....
...It is more than 80 years since suburban passenger trains ran on the Camp Hill railway line into Birmingham....
...The works were opened in 1843 by the Great Western Railway to serve as a central repair station for the locomotives on Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s new railway....
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...Some depend on other major investments, such as the expansion of northern railway stations, which have yet to be announced....
...When Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that he was scrapping the multibillion-pound HS2 railway line to Manchester, while standing in a former train station in the same city, the immediate cry from northern...
...Some railway lines cut under the Beeching programme of the 1960s will also be reopened....
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...There were, he said, few deals that offered the kind of transformative impact past takeovers have had, such as its purchases of insurers Geico and National Indemnity or the BNSF railroad....
...Berkshire’s BNSF Railway, which runs from California to Illinois, reported a decline in shipping revenues and said consumer and industry demand had fallen....
...The pair are discussing plans under which they could dump both the Birmingham to Manchester section of HS2 and the final stretch of the railway from Old Oak Common in west London to Euston station in the...
...Asked what their company had cut in order to meet government cost saving targets, one railway executive replied: “everything”....
...“You can do NPR without HS2 but it would cost a lot more,” said William Barter, an independent rail planning consultant....
...Osborne, who is president of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, a group of civic and business leaders, said on his Political Currency podcast: “You can’t build these railways overnight....
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