UPDATE: This from a concerned reader...
Dear Fact Compiler
You're worrying yourself about the trees of whom Rupert Brennan Brown, the veteran rail industry observer, resembles and missing the wood - he's smoking in a railway carriage.
Was this picture taken after smoking was banned on the railways?
If so, when can we expect to hear of his banning from National Express East Coast or whichever Toc it was whose rules the irreverent spin-merchant was choosing to flout?
Yours in the interest of public order,
Robert Wright,
Transport Correspondent
Financial Times
As the Eye understands that BB advises a competitor to NXEC we had assumed such a ban was already in place...
Dear Fact Compiler
You're worrying yourself about the trees of whom Rupert Brennan Brown, the veteran rail industry observer, resembles and missing the wood - he's smoking in a railway carriage.
Was this picture taken after smoking was banned on the railways?
If so, when can we expect to hear of his banning from National Express East Coast or whichever Toc it was whose rules the irreverent spin-merchant was choosing to flout?
Yours in the interest of public order,
Robert Wright,
Transport Correspondent
Financial Times
As the Eye understands that BB advises a competitor to NXEC we had assumed such a ban was already in place...