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Almost £1m in damages to Stonehaven crash victims

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Alex Bestwick

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9 October 2023

Almost £1 million in damages has been secured from Network Rail for seven people affected by a rail crash which claimed three lives in 2020, lawyers have said.
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Plans to reopen Leamside Line appear to be dropped from Network North after 24 hours

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Alex Bestwick

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5 October 2023

Reopening the Leamside Line has been removed from the initial list of projects for Rishi Sunak’s Network North programme just 24 hours after the announcement.
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Cancelling HS2 contracts will cost hundreds of millions

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Alex Bestwick

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5 October 2023

Paying off contracts previously awarded for cancelled HS2 sections will cost hundreds of millions of pounds, Transport Secretary Mark Harper has indicated.
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Northern leg of HS2 cancelled

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Alex Bestwick

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3 October 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that the northern leg of HS2 will not go ahead.
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Train named to honour rail guard who helped end racist recruitment policy

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Alex Bestwick

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2 October 2023

Avanti West Coast has named one of its trains after a railway worker who overturned a racist recruitment policy.
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ScotRail to scrap peak fares in six month trial

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Alex Bestwick

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2 October 2023

ScotRail passengers will pay off-peak fares on peak time trains in a six-month trial aiming to encourage train travel.
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Unions call for emergency summit to discuss HS2

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Alex Bestwick

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29 September 2023

Unions are calling for an emergency summit to discuss HS2 as speculation about the high-speed railway line’s future continues.
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County Durham station now believed to be the world’s oldest railway station

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Alex Bestwick

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28 September 2023

A County Durham railway station has been found to be older than first thought and is now believed to be the world’s oldest railway station, new research has discovered.
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‘Insane’ 11-hour Avanti West Coast journey goes viral

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Alex Bestwick

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26 September 2023

A rail passenger has described his “insane” 11-hour journey from Preston in Lancashire to Edinburgh which ended at 3.30am after a “ridiculous” taxi ride.
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Continuing to put money into HS2 ‘irresponsible’, says former transport secretary

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Alex Bestwick

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25 September 2023

It would be “irresponsible” to keep putting money into the HS2 project in the face of rising costs, a Cabinet minister has said as Rishi Sunak reportedly considered scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the route.
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