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London Liverpool Street station to help passengers with hidden disabilities
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London Liverpool Street will now offer passengers with hidden disabilities a discreet way to ask for extra help while making their journeys.
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Stadler to build new Tyne & Wear Metro trains
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Swiss manufacturer Stadler has beaten rivals CAF and Hitachi to secure a £362m contract to build a fleet of 42 new trains for the Tyne & Wear Metro.
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Holocaust Memorial Day: 75 years since liberation of Auschwitz camp
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The darkest episode in the history of world railways undoubtedly centres around the role they were forced to play in the transport of civilians to Nazi death camps during the Second World War.
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World War One memorial relocated to Bangor railway station
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The relocation of a memorial to 16 railway workers who died serving in World War One was formally re-dedicated at Bangor railway station on 24 January.
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Complexity and risks of HS2 were ‘under-estimated’
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HS2 is over budget and behind schedule because its complexity and risks were under-estimated, according to the Whitehall spending watchdog.
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Explore British Railways After Steam for only 99p
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For a limited time only, you can read this fantastic digital book for only 99p!
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RMT demands more staff at railway station ticket offices
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The UK’s biggest rail workers’ union is calling for a halt to the closure of ticket offices and staffing cuts after claiming almost half of all stations are unstaffed.
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HS2 could destroy irreplaceable natural habitats, report warns
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HS2 risks destroying “huge swathes” of irreplaceable habitats, including 108 ancient woodlands.
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Department for Transport and Innovate UK launch competition to ‘find this century’s Brunel’
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Around £9.4 million is available for this year’s winners to make their ideas a reality.
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UK railway news round-up
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This week’s railway round-up is dominated with the story that the government is to launch a review into the costs and benefits of HS2, even after £7 billion has already been spent on the high speed rail project.
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