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InTheNews: The latest rail news on Tuesday, 14th February 2023
Rail services on the Cotswold Line have been cancelled for a week after a landslip blocked the track.
An article on ThisisOxfordshire says Great Western Railway said there would be no trains between Oxford and Moreton-in-Marsh until Saturday, while engineers work to repair the line, following the landslip in the Yarnton area on Friday.
A Paddington train was reported to have been put out of action after hitting falling bricks from a damaged bridge after Friday’s incident. British Transport Police had to escort 362 passengers onto another train.
Leicestershire’s section of the HS2 rail line could be scrapped altogether to beat spiralling costs, according to reports.
An article on Leicestershire Live says the claim was made in The Times over the weekend, with Government ministers reportedly looking into reviewing the whole line, potentially axing sections of it.
The county’s route, known as Phase 2b, will not see a station built in Leicestershire, but the government has insisted HS2 will run through the region on its way to Birmingham. According to The Times, this route – along with a number of others – is now under review.
The first of Avanti West Coast’s new fleet of Hitachi trains has made its first ever test run on the West Coast Main Line.
The class 805 bi-mode train, which can run under both electric and diesel power, undertook the 560-mile inaugural round trip from Alstom’s Oxley depot in Wolverhampton, from where the trains will be maintained after they enter service, to Glasgow Central.
This follows two months successful dynamic testing at Network Rail’s Rail Innovation and Development Centre (RIDC) at Melton Mowbray.
A Londoner has spent months visiting all of London’s Tube stations in a bid to make the most of his mobility and to raise awareness about his medical condition.
An article on the BBC website says Ben Spencer, who lives at the end of the Central Line, suffers from ataxia, a progressive and degenerative muscle disease.
The former bouncer and Millwall season ticket-holder was told in July that he probably will not be able to walk in a year’s time.
Due to his love of the London Underground, he set himself the challenge of visiting all 272 Tube stations.
Photo credit: Avanti West Coast
