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A train operator has replaced plastic bottles of water on board its services with recyclable cartons.
An article on Chronicle Live says from Monday, all electric train service Lumo will scrap plastic bottles and offer water to customers in a bespoke 100 per cent recyclable carton.
This is to reduce the many thousands of plastic bottles produced each week.
The move by Lumo, which operates on the East Coast Main Line between Edinburgh and London, is UK first for any train company.
Plans for a new viaduct to reunite two halves of a heritage railway line have been announced.
An article on the BBC website says the Great Central Railway line ran between Leicester and Nottingham until the 1970s, when old bridges and an embankment were removed.
Plans to create an 18-mile stretch of railway to link the Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire branches are set to be submitted “in a matter of weeks”.
Organisers are appealing for funding to help them complete their efforts.
New tactile surfacing has been installed at every LNER managed station, making platforms safer for customers.
The operator said that raised surfaces create a visual and physical alert to the presence of the platform edge, which are especially helpful to people who are blind or partially sighted.
More than 600,000 studs have been installed across platforms over the past two years and work has just been completed on the project, introducing and enhancing the surfacing across eleven stations managed by LNER.
Volunteers at a heritage railway are to restore a 125-year-old steam locomotive that has not been able to run for four years.
An article on the BBC website says the T9 class engine was loaned to Swanage Railway in 2017 by the National Railway Museum but in 2020 failed its boiler examination.
The group conducting the overhaul has already restored an 1893 T3 locomotive in a six-year project costing £650,000.
The T9 works will be split between engineering teams in Gloucestershire and Dorset.
