Offical - Eye is "unsuitable" says NR

The Eye has received the following missive from a concerned reader...

Dear Fact Compiler,

Although you give a reason for the possible lack of action from the NR Internet Rapid Rebuttal Unit on your blog, a slightly more rational reason may be the fact that last week NR has blocked your page as unsuitable!

It may be coincidence that this occurred at exactly the moment that internet access was granted to signallers, but I for one find it quite annoying, as your blog is a shining beacon of hope to those of us here, as it allows us to see some of the news that the higher level parts of the company would rather keep quiet.

Yours, A low-level NR lacky.

NR's Not Quite So Rapid Rebuttal Unit provides the following explanation:

"Our IM people have blocked a load of blogging and social networking sites at the moment, NOT for editorial reasons.

"The reason for their actions is, of course, that are many critical computer systems at Network Rail and they have to be protected.

"However, I can assure 'the low level NR lackey' that I have raised this issue with senior IM people and hopefully everyone here at Network Rail will have access to Railway Eye again very soon."

Good news indeed. Allowing Eye to get some cheap gibes in at NR's expense whilst the infrastructure owner is unsighted.

UPDATE: This from the Major...

To most of today's railwaymen 'IM' means infrastructure maintenance, or p-way in old money.

The above response from NR suggests 'IM' is something to do with computers and the interweb.

This may explain recent problems over at the WCML...

UPDATE: This from our man at 222 Marylebone Road...

NR is clearly taking taking the new concept of 'cyber-war' seriously.

North Korean state computer hackers have presumably worked out a way to reduce Britain's transport infrastructure to chaos with viruses embedded in blogs!

Presumably for considerably less than the £9 billion that NR spent on successfully doing the same thing?