Waterloo - it was the WON what won it.

Amazingly, since Eye's return to the fray, we have not been inveigled into giving a blatant plug for the industry's stealth newsletter Rail Business Intelligence.  

So here is an item from last week's issue:

Commissioning of the resignalling between Platforms 20-24 at Waterloo Station and International Junction, scheduled to be brought into use on May 15, has been postponed. This is part of the programme to bring the former Waterloo International platforms into domestic use as part of the CP5 Waterloo Capacity enhancement programme.  Availability of these platforms will allow the partial blockade at Waterloo from August 5-28 for the lengthening of Platforms 1-4 

It would appear that someone at the Sunday Times is an avid readers of RBI?

Eye's man with the safety critical software notes that, unusually, the Weekly Operating Notice containing this information (on Page 95 of 102) did not give a revised commissioning date.

Ooh er!

Shot in arm for Corbyn nationalisation plans!

No, sorry. Eye lied. 

It's actually a huge shot in the foot, or other more sensitive parts of the anatomy!

Readers of today's Sunday Times will no doubt have seen the following story about state owned Network Rail:

Key take away:

Engineers for Network Rail have warned train company bosses and government officials that a plan to upgrade Waterloo station in August is in trouble and disruption could be worse than forecast.

Well-placed sources believe the impact on passengers will be so severe the entire project could be delayed for a year or scaled back.

Full article can be found here.

Eye salutes Network Rail's Infrastructure Projects (IP), for consistency in delivery. 

IP - tasked with enhancing the railway. Sadly, not in the eyes of our industry, its stakeholders and customers (FFS!)