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If a statement was being made to the House of Commons today it would have been confirmed by now. There is something from the Home Secretary and one from a Foreign Office Minister but nothing from DfT. So i'm guessing tomorrow.

Heidi Alexander new Transport Secretary https://x.com/10DowningStreet/status/1862463059278577729

Just been announced that Louise Haigh has resigned as Transport Secretary which may delay things a bit. Exchange of letters here https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1862379483375796386?t=fAhaClU0k7mWx9W5hpW3Hw&s=19

FYI it is now free to text 61016 from some of the major mobile networks. https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btps-61016-text-service-now-free-across-all-major-uk-mobile-networks/

It will be "I have to notify the house in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967 that His Majesty has signified his Royal Assent to the following Act. Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024". And then repeated by the speaker of the House of Commons. There have been two Acts...

Business for next week in the Commons has just been announced and they will be considering Lords amendments to the Passenger Railway Services Bill on Tuesday.

The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill has its 3rd reading in the House of Lords today, then it will go back to the Commons to consider amendments between each house. When Commons and Lords both agree in "ping pong", it will go for Royal Assent so shouldn't be much longer.

Relevant extracts from the budget document (page 64) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-budget-2024

Further down the the full press release re: more potential changes. Interesting how the first point is worded. https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/westmidlandstrains/pressreleases/network-rail-trialling-new-boarding-processes-at-london-euston-3351434

I've noticed in the last week or two that I haven't seen before that: 1) There doesn't seem to be the 'countdown' on platform boards anymore, instead just saying departing on time or equivalent. 2) Some services will show a 'boarding at approx. xx' time on the main board, presumably to avoid panic.

LBC are reporting this morning that the government plan to reverse the decision to scrap Phase 2a of HS2. https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/hs2-london-euston-to-crewe-labour/

It will be interesting how they achieve this one. That corner with the toilets would be the logical place to remove retail units for more concourse space, unless more toilet provision can be added in the other direction?

This appears to be the original https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/passenger_flow_surveys_following/response/2471291/attach/5/attachment.pdf

Confirmation: https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/westmidlandstrains/pressreleases/london-northwestern-railway-update-on-rollout-of-pay-as-you-go-with-contactless-technology-to-14-stations-3342420

I wonder if crowds exiting platforms may get slightly worse once Project Oval comes in when LNR services arrive on non platforms 8-11? As more passengers will have to touch out and there are only 4 validators compared to about a dozen at the gateline (I think it autocompletes when you touch in...

Earliest would be 12:30, later if there are urgent questions or statements. Timings agreed give up to four hours for committee stage and up to five hours from the start for all of today's stages (committee, consideration and third reading) 1725357402 Ed Miliband making a statement in the house...

There is a good summary in this letter from Network Rail to the Transport Select Committee https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/44895/documents/222815/default/ h/t #209 in the Hendy/Dennis thread...

I saw 730/2 730229 passing Bushey circa. 08:00 this morning with Crewe on the dot matrix at the front if that helps anyone to tie up anything.

Press release from LNWR: https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/westmidlandstrains/pressreleases/london-northwestern-railway-pay-as-you-go-with-contactless-technology-coming-to-14-stations-next-month-3339074

Regarding the ORR Improvement Notice, I sent an FOI asking what were the "necessary control measures" put in place. They said: Produce to ORR a suitable and sufficient risk assessment for passenger flows and overcrowding. The risk assessment should cover all foreseeable passenger surge and...