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A new low-carbon daily freight train is carrying containers from Southampton to Scotland.
An article on the BBC website says the Freightliner service uses a form of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) to power the 750m-long train.
It runs from Southampton Port up to Crewe on the new fuel instead of diesel, before carrying on into Scotland on electric.
Louise Ward, Freightliner safety and sustainability director, said: “We think this is the first of many.”
The HS2 rail link might not reach central London until 2040, the Transport Secretary has admitted.
An article on the i news website says it would mean passengers being left at a hub six miles from the planned terminal at Euston, and having to get onto the Elizabeth Line to finish their journey.
Speaking to MPs on the Transport Select Committee, Mark Harper also said delays to the troubled high-speed rail project will not save money.
Burglars have ‘absolutely trashed’ a heritage railway museum, smashing windows and setting off fire extinguishers.
An article on the Oxford Mail website says thieves broke into Didcot Railway Centre earlier this week and left the place looking like it had been ‘hit by a tornado’, said staff.
Events manager Sarah Jermyn discovered the wreckage in the morning and described it as ‘pretty devastating’.
Transport for London’s (TfL’s) plans to create a new London Overground link in west London are progressing with Mott MacDonald awarded the design contract.
The West London Orbital is a proposed rail line on the London Overground, which would fill a missing link in the network between north and west London.
The 18km route would cross four London boroughs, stretching from Hounslow to Hendon and West Hampstead in the north.
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