Image by Joel Goodman (Manchester Evening News)

UK Rail

• A tram delayed the New Year from starting in Manchester by 4 minutes. Watch the full shambles here.
• Cock-Ups-a-plenty this week as overrunning engineering works causes festive chaos on the East Coast Mainline…
• …Network Rail makes official apology and say their boss will not take a Christmas bonus.
• The festive improvement works at London Bridge went much more smoothly. Do you want to see timelapse footage of it? Of course you do.
• Fares have gone up 20% under The Coalition…
• …but at least train companies will inform you of the cheapest prices in new “code of practice.”
• Twitter user @bitoclass creates this Christmas version of the tube map….
• London Reconnections explore train frequencies on the tube’s Sub-Surface Lines.
• Tottenham Court Road Tube station will be partially closed for a year.
• YouTuber, cbalmer001 has decorated his bathroom to mimic a Leslie Green tube station.
• An Arriva Trains Wales service was allegedly so crowded, passengers rode in the drivers cab!

World Rail

• The Railway Gazette report that the CTA are going Contactless.

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