Bombardier UK customers might find the below of interest.
Always worth knowing who is on the up.
UPDATE: This from Anagrammaticus...
Pierre Attendu = Train et Perdue !
So if he loses Thameslink, will he be on the "Down Fast" ?
Oh dear.
It looks like the PM is off message.
This from the Number 10 website:
Gordon Brown called the Javelin train’s first weekday journey, “a momentous day in the long and glorious history of British railways” during the official launch of the UK’s first domestic high-speed rail service at St Pancras International station this morning.
Putting aside the interesting quote about the 'glorious history of British railways' hasn't the dear leader committed a faux pas by referring to South Eastern's high speed train as a 'Javelin'?
This name, we are constantly reminded, cannot be used before the London 2012 Olympics (copyright ODA).
Can it be long before threatening letters are sent to Downing Street?
UPDATE: This from Lobby Fodder...
I'm amazed at Brown's bare faced cheek!
Take this quote from the same release:
“I know some people who think this is not the time to be investing in infrastructure but I believe it is essential to do so and we will be investing £20 billion in our rail infrastructure in the next few years.”
Talk about making spending commitments with someone else's budget.
I suspect the "we" he is referring to will be in opposition within six months and therefore not in a position to invest in anything.
Apart from cleaners and painting summer houses obviously...
Good news from the European Union!
A bloke with a 'tash has been nominated for the role of Transport Commissar in Manuel Barroso's new European Commission.
Bloke with Tash comes from Estonia and lists the following amongst his achievements:
I wonder if they are in anyway related?
Happy news for beleaguered National Express share holders.
Today there will be a veritable love in between the doomed company and the Department:
Telegrammed by Patience Strong
More profligacy from the men at the ministry...
Written Answers — Transport: Departmental Plants (10 Dec 2009)
Grant Shapps (Shadow Minister (Housing), Communities and Local Government; Welwyn Hatfield, Conservative)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much has been spent by his Department on (a) cut flowers and (b) pot plants in each of the last three years.
Chris Mole (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Ipswich, Labour)
The information is not held in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, the Department for Transport spent £87,401 on pot plants and £3,419 on cut flowers in 2008-09. This excludes spend incurred at the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency as the information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
No doubt that includes the cost of flying in chrysanthemums for IEP meetings.
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