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The latest rail news on Monday, 21st June 2021

Rail passengers will be able to save up to £390 a year with new flexible season tickets for part-time commuters, it was announced today.

The news features in several of the newspapers including The Times, that says the tickets will go on sale in England today and will be used for the first time from next Monday.

Under the system, digital “flexi tickets” can be used on any eight days in a 28-day period without being required to select the days of travel in advance.

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A major project designed to help deliver Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” agenda in the North could be scrapped at a secret Whitehall meeting this week, a civil service source has claimed.

An article in the Sunday Express claims well-placed sources have said that available funds for the £43 billion Northern Powerhouse Rail project, have been swallowed up by the HS2 project, which, it is claimed, has now reached £158 billion without any track being laid.

The Department for Transport denies this figure saying it is “unsubstantiated and incorrect”.

Swansea railway station has been given a dramatic transformation after Network Rail and Transport for Wales came together to deliver key improvements.

An investment of more than £7.5 million in the station, which first opened 171 years ago, is the biggest in more than a decade.

Almost the entire length of platform four has been rebuilt and is now 260 metres long.

The station itself has had a major refresh with improved ticket-buying facilities, new toilets, and refurbished space for use by local businesses and community groups.

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Transport for Wales is set to install up to 200 life-saving defibrillators at its railway stations across the Wales and Borders network.

The scheme will see defibrillators fitted at more than 80 per cent of TfW stations over the next 18 months, which will be accessible to the public 24 hours a day.

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