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Plans for a new rail service which would make it realistic to commute between England and France have been submitted to the European Commission. Known as the "Transmanche Metro", it would entail setting up a service with trains stopping at Stratford, Ashford, Calais, Cote d'Opale, Lille and possibly Bruges (link below.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/3235674/Cross-channel-commuter-service-plan.html

National Express East Anglia is issuing security officers with head-mounted cameras as part of a drive to reduce anti-social behaviour (link below.)
http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/story.php?id=5270

Scott Wilson Group has won a ^9.8 million contract from Network Rail to provide designs for the above ground sections of the Crossrail project (link below.)
http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2008/10/scott_wilson_wins_crossrail_ov.html#more

Former Carlisle mayor Craig Johnston is bidding to win a place on the influential national executive committee of the RMT rail union (link below.)
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.257847

Villagers in Glenboig, near Coatbridge, have voiced concern at plans to build one of Europe's biggest rail freight terminals on an old landfill site (link below.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7684480.stm

The Central Rail Corridor Board has issued a press release saying it has disbanded and is blaming the project^s failure on the Government^s transport policy (link below.)
http://www.wealdenline.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105:20-october-successful-agm-and-east-sussex-rail-board-dissolved-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=90