Simon Longstaffe

Today, at the Northern Transport Summit #NTS24, I will set out GM’s new plan for bringing rail into the @BeeNetwork. We are: 🐝 expanding the lines to EIGHT 🐝 setting a new end date of 2028 🐝 working closely with rail industry colleagues to make it happen! #LeadingTheWay

Now this is a PHOTOGRAPH!

The building of new infrastructure such as roads, train lines and communities will be safeguarded by over £600bn in capital investment over the next 5 years.   Projects like these help to grow our economy and level up regions across the UK. #AutumnStatement

Round 2 of the Levelling Up Fund will invest at least £1.7bn in local projects’ across the UK.   Successful projects will be announced later this year. #AutumnStatement

@MrTimDunn It is a stunning building

As my train slid into London Bridge station tonight, FLASH! The sun landed on that subtly-conspicuous slice of 1920s jazz, St Olav House. But *tonight* it fizzed like a halogen bulb and for a second, nothing else existed. So I alighted, & had another look. modernistbritain.co.uk/post/building/…

Mace secures major win on National Highways framework macegroup.com/media-centre/m…

Worked on the previous generation of modular stations when I was at NR, be interested to see the costs... thetimes.co.uk/article/4d3ef9…

Can't wait...

Every year on April 28, all around the world organisations mark International Workers Memorial Day #IWMD22 This is the buoy that marks the site of Piper Alpha where 167 people died in 1988, one of whom was my brother. He was 22.

Railway map of Antarctica

Senior Tory says Shapps privately assured him £3bn HS2 branch will be scrapped theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/a…

Physics in action....

Really pleased to have received this in the post this morning... #rics

Today's date is great...

£20bn shortfall based on actual revenue lost and on proceeds that the railway industry would have made by 2025 if COVID hadn't happened thetimes.co.uk/article/79be31…

Waiting for the driver to open up...

@Elwick70 10.03 by Doves

@garywfox It's the trains destination not the individual.

@SimonLongstaffe Not for someone who got off earlier at their destination.

I’ve been asked to do an interview on talkRADIO about the cull of announcements. Please let me have your least favourites as candidates for the chop?! Join me at 1945!