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A public consultation has launched on proposals to significantly upgrade Birmingham’s rail network between Moor Street station and Bordesley, as part of the wider Midlands Rail Hub programme backed by £123m of government investment.
An article on The Business Desk says the eight-week consultation, which runs until 28 August, covers plans to build two new sections of railway — known as chords — connecting the Camp Hill line with the Chiltern main line for the first time.
Sections of the Bordesley viaduct running through Digbeth would be widened and two new platforms built at Birmingham Moor Street, with an existing platform brought back into use.
The improvements would transfer a number of regional services from Birmingham New Street — the busiest station outside London — to Moor Street, freeing up capacity for additional local and long-distance services.
The Mayor of the Liverpool City Region has said delays to work beginning on a new £100m rail station in the city’s Baltic Triangle area are “the bane of my life”.
An article on the BBC website says Liverpool Baltic station was due to open in 2027 but work is now not set to even begin until then, with the Mayor not committing to a completion date.
Steve Rotheram told BBC Radio Merseyside the project “would not be cancelled” but described the delay as “debilitating”.
Rotheram said the work was made more complicated because “this station that we’re going to build is on live rails”.
He said the combined authority was trying to stop trains from running on the line while the work was carried out and run rail replacement buses instead.
The founder of the North East Land Sea and Air Museum (NELSAM) said he has been left feeling “gutted” after the Royal Metro train carriage donated by Nexus was vandalised with graffiti less than 48 hours after arriving and going on display at the Washington site.
An article on The Sunderland Echo says on Wednesday (July 1) the museum officially unveiled train 4020, the carriage which carried Queen Elizabeth II when she officially opened the network in 1981.
However, David Charles, NELSAM Founder and Chair of Trustees, and his fellow volunteers arrived on Friday morning (July 3) to find vandals had gained entry to the site and scrawled giant graffiti across the side of all of the train’s carriages
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