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The latest rail news on Tuesday, 10th August 2021
Network Rail has opened a voluntary leavers scheme, initially looking at its head office management grades that it says have disproportionately grown over the last decade.
Tim Shoveller, Network Rail’s regional managing director has agreed with the Trade Unions that they will aim to avoid compulsory redundancies, with a leavers scheme now live until the end of September.
The comments as rail union RMT vows to fight a wholesale jobs cull across the industry that it says would decimate the industry at a time when it needs to be building for the future.
Paddington Elizabeth line station has been officially transferred to Transport for London (TfL), which will operate the transformational new Elizabeth line.
This is the sixth of the new Elizabeth line stations to be transferred over to TfL, following Custom House, Farringdon, Tottenham Court Road, Woolwich and Liverpool Street stations.
Detailed plans for an extension to the Bala Lake Railway have been published as part of a pre-application planning consultation.
An article on Insider Media Limited says the proposals include a 0.75-mile extension to the existing railway line to start and terminate within the centre of Bala, as well as a new railway station and associated services.
The station will house a ticket office and cafe, together with meeting facilities and a function room.
East Midlands Railway (EMR) has marked the 175th anniversary of the Castle Line by holding a series of events up and down the route.
The line, which runs between Nottingham and Lincoln through towns and villages alongside the River Trent, opened on the 4th August 1846 as a 33-mile extension to the Derby to Nottingham route.
George Stephenson surveyed the area and avoided engineering difficulties simply by following the route of the river.
Photo credit: East Midlands Railway
