Wednesday 22 August 2012

Railway Garden Competition - Lincoln

This from Dogboxdriver...

Lincoln has featured before in Eye's Garden Competition, back in 2009 (pictured below).


Having failed to win then, the Nature Garden Formerly Known As Platform 8 has been massively improved for this year's contest.
 
 
Much to the evident delight of local staff!

Railway Bothys - Manchester Victoria

This from a Mr Twelve-Dozen...

Eye readers might be interested to see the completion of the Manchester Victoria upgrade works. 

In particular the state of the art passenger facilities installed alongside platform 2.


Has Northern taken the McNulty recommendations too far...

Pointless signs - Dalmuir

This from Big Malc...


Presumably Gaelic speakers all use mobiles?

Griffiths to be Stagecoach CEO

This from Reuters...
Stagecoach also said its chief executive Brian Souter would stand down and become the company's chairman in May 2013, replacing George Mathewson who is retiring. Martin Griffiths, the company's finance director, will take over as chief executive, the company said.
Nothing yet on what Stagecoach thinks of Virgin Trains' campaign to get the InterCity West Coast franchise decision overturned.

Virgin Trains is 49% owned by Stagecoach.