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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

UK rail minister says sorry for threatening messages over Euston station concerns

Passengers crowd the concourse in front of the departures board at Euston station.
Passengers crowd the concourse at Euston station. An engineer was sacked after saying overcrowding at the rail hub was unsafe. Photograph: Sally Wardle/PA

The rail minister Peter Hendy has apologised for emails in which he threatened to withhold contracts from a supplier whose engineer had publicly raised safety concerns about overcrowding at Euston station.

Lord Hendy told an industry conference in London that the tone of his messages sent in his previous role as chair of Network Rail “fell well short of what should be expected, and for that I apologise”.

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