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Old 29-01-2018, 14:52   #481
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Figures released today (Monday) by the Rail Delivery Group reveal a boost in the number of new train carriages coming on track by 2021.

Last October Britain’s railway, a partnership of the public and private sector, published its plan to change and improve rail services, committing to delivering 5,700 new carriages by 2021. Today’s figures reveal a further 1,300 carriages will be arriving on Britain’s railway by the early 2020s, bringing the total number to just over 7,000.

New carriages are part of the long-term plan of the partnership railway. In the plan, called In Partnership for Britain’s Prosperity, rail companies commit to improving customer satisfaction to remain the top-rated major railway in Europe. The latest figures show them going even further. The long-term plan will secure almost £85bn of additional economic benefits for Britain.

The new carriages represent an investment of at least £13.8bn by the private sector in rail. This is bolstering public investment in major upgrades to the railway infrastructure which, combined with new carriages, will enable the partnership railway to run more than 6,400 extra services each week by 2021, benefitting all parts of the country.

The partnership railway’s long-term rolling stock strategy, published later this spring, will say that the total number of carriages running on Britain’s railway is estimated to increase from 13,000 to 15,900 – an increase of 22 per cent.

The new carriages will mean the retirement of some of the oldest trains on the network with rolling stock that has more seats, Wifi, power points, improved accessibility, air-conditioning and, in the case of the Caledonian Sleeper, even double en-suite bedrooms.

Pacer trains, dating back to the 1980s, which operate in the north of England will be replaced with 281 new electric and diesel carriages with Wifi, power sockets and digital information screens. On Merseyrail, trains that are almost 40 years old will be replaced with state-of-the-art carriages with space for more people and sliding ramps that allow level boarding at each doorway.
Good news at last for those suffering from the Pacers.
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More problems for the rail franchises..

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The East Coast rail franchise could be returned to the public sector after the government announced Virgin Trains had breached its £3.3bn contract.
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The East Coast franchise was to be terminated three years early in 2020 under a controversial rail strategy announced by Grayling in November, potentially letting Virgin-Stagecoach off the hook for more than £1bn in promised payments to government. The announcement on Monday brought forward the termination of the current contract.
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Great Western Railway accounts are breached.

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A British rail operator has reset more than a million customer accounts after discovering hackers had successfully breached a small percentage of them.
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East Coast rail franchise 'to be scrapped' within days by the transport secretary.

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The transport secretary was said to be preparing to either renationalise the London to Edinburgh line or negotiate a “not-for-profit” arrangement with Stagecoach and Virgin Trains before the end of the week.
https://www.theguardian.com/business...chris-grayling
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Frankly they could not organise a piss up in a brewery let alone run a TOC.

https://www.theguardian.com/business...metable-begins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-44188947
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Rail fares will continue to rise when Labour renationalises the train network, shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald has said.

Mr McDonald said the party’s plans to take back the train companies and network into state hands are “not about freezing or reducing” rail fares.

Instead Labour would only increase fares by CPI not RPI rate of inflation – a policy already being examined by the Tories as an attempt to stop rail fares rising too quickly.

CPI - the consumer prices index - is currently 3 per cent, while the RPI measure - retail prices index - is 4 per cent.
So you'll still pay more under Labour. The difference being that nationalisation costs will come out of your taxes as well.
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Plus, once the whole system becomes a single national whole once more, the trade unions can freeze every train in the country with a good old fashioned nationwide strike, on any issue that takes their fancy. Let’s not forget that. The unions are interested in state control because the structures inherent in state monopolies serve to increase union influence.
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Keolis/Amey wins 15 year £5bn Wales rail contract.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-44221184#
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So much for this being 2018 where sadly if you commute on certain northern rail routes one third of their trains will run without wheelchair access.

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Documents leaked to the Disability News Service show that wheelchairs will not be able to travel on 12 of the 34 hourly services to and from Liverpool and Scarborough via Manchester Victoria, Huddersfield, Leeds and York.
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The documents say there will be “no space on the train for wheelchairs” and that “the trains will run without wheelchair or cycle provision”.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...or-train-route
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More chaotic chaos on our chaotic railways..

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The under-fire rail operator Northern has been accused of breaking promises after it asked to extend the closure of a line in the Lake District following weeks of misery for commuters.
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Cumbrian businesses have warned the closure of the line risks doing irreparable harm to the region’s tourism industry.
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Train passengers set for 3.5% fare rise sadly.

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Rain passengers are set to face a 3.5 per cent fare increase, as new research shows commuter satisfaction has plummeted in the last decade.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...show-commuter/

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This is definitely my cup of tea.

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Ministers are “actively considering” axing the entire £56 billion high speed 2 rail network, it has emerged.

A senior Cabinet source told Channel 4’s Dispatches programme to be aired tonight that another option under review is only building HS2 to Birmingham amid fears the project’s budget is spiralling out of control.

Annual spending on HS2 over the next decade is on course to soar by a whopping 40 per cent to £6 billion, according to revelations by Channel 4 Dispatches.

This is equivalent to the amount Network Rail spends per year on maintaining and upgrading the entire rail network.

In public Theresa May remains committed to HS2 but the programme quoted a Cabinet minister saying she wanted to “scrap the whole thing” after entering No10 but “lacked the confidence” to follow through on it.

In a further blow for HS2 just one in five voters said they want the multi-billion pound project to be built.
A lot of money for not much gain IMHO. Whole story on red link above.
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A lot of money for not much gain IMHO. Whole story on red link above.
Given the endemic problems on much of our national railways something had to give IMO as it was turning out to be a white elephant that was soaking up money hand over fist for not much gain at the end of the day..
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Virgin Trains to vanish from the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/business...r-pensions-row
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