This from an email invite to the Fourth Friday Club 'Golden Spanners' awards...
We have a large number of sponsored tables and members of the Club are invited to attend the event, where the cream of the rolling stock community will be present.
What can Modern Railways be suggesting.
"Cream of the rolling stock community"?
As in rich and thick?*
*With a bowler tip to Brian Souter, who used this line against himself at today's DDRF annual conference
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Insults fly in advance of Golden Spanners - Shocker
Thursday, 26 November 2009
4th Friday Shocker: Nemesis meets its err... nemesis
As any fule kno the railway industry is leakier than a vacuum brake.
So it came as no surprise when Eye received the following cyptic message from "NFRIP Insider"...
Nemesis advised to go short on lunchtime champagne at tomorrow's Golden Spanners.
What can this mean?
Hopefully such austerity will allow the Railway Children to benefit later that evening?
Friday, 28 November 2008
Come back Haydn...
Along to Modern Railway's Golden Spanner awards which celebrate the best improvements in fleet performance.
With the police busy locking up MPs who have embarrassed the Supreme Leader it is only right that today's awards ceremony should reflect the Age of Change.
Thus Comrade Deltic addressed the gathering from the podium and unveiled stunning train production figures for the next five years.
A number of comrades were seen to leave early. Their details have been recorded!
Alas, the same cannot be said for Rosco Angel Trains - which owned none of the winning fleets.
UPDATE: Generalismo Deltic writes:
"Generalissimo Deltic asks Eye to point out that the most reliable Intercity fleet is the IC225 trains operated by the East Coast Workers Collective and that it is the aim of the revanchist running dog lackeys of Marsham Street to replace these at an early date with the so called IEP which is likely to be the least reliable Intercity fleet .
"If this adventurism continues, the Generalissimo urges the serried ranks of railway workers, peasant and intellectuals, to rise up! And standing shoulder to shoulder to deliver a stunning rebuff to these decadent paper tigers, masquerading as rail management, as they cower in their bunkers."
Railway AgitProp Communique No 1
