BBC Railway News 28th January 2012

28 January 2012

• African Union to open Chinese-funded HQ in Ethiopia
  
  Africa / NEW 3 hours agoChinese-funded projects. Chinese cars are being made in Ethiopian factories and China is also building a light railway across Addis Ababa.…

27 January 2012

• Marks Tey railway station's £2.2m upgrade opened
  
  Essex / NEW 17 hours agoA £2.2m upgrade of a mainline railway station in north Essex has been officially unveiled. The work at Marks Tey includes a new station building…

• Views wanted on Wakefield Kirkgate upgrade plan
  
  Leeds & West Yorkshire / NEW 19 hours agoPeople's views are wanted on how a railway station named "one of the worst in Britain" could be improved. Some refurbishment has already taken…

• Wolverton residents to decide town's future
  
  Beds, Herts & Bucks / NEW 20 hours ago… deal with the controversial Agora shopping centre a high priority. Wolverton is a Victorian town, purpose built by a railway company to. Residents…

• CCTV captures moving train attack
  
  NEW 21 hours agoA Shropshire man has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence after admitting throwing another man against a moving train.

• Basildon revamp: Views sought on £1bn plans
  
  Essex / NEW 21 hours ago… relocated to St Martin's Square. A new public square would be created at the town's railway station, along with a "transit mall" for buses and…

• Man sentenced for throwing man at train in Shrewsbury
  
  Shropshire / NEW 22 hours agoA man who threw another man against a moving train at a railway station has been given a suspended jail sentence. Daniel Peter Worgan, 24, of…