Circle line Stations of the Cross

This from the Catholic Herald...

Commuters forced to ponder the inscrutable workings of London Underground’s Circle Line were this week offered a new diversion. An anonymous artist has designed a pamphlet depicting the 14 Stations of the Cross and has arranged them so they sit alongside stations of the Tube line.


The artist created the beautiful paper-cut illustrations having "found idle train trips an amazingly fruitful time for prayer & contemplation".

The non-profit project, dedicated to JM, can be viewed on-line at the Stations of the King’s Cross website.

Good effort.

Sir Norman Wisdom RIP

Good effort.

Maundy Thursday at St Pancras

Evidently railway padre and St Pancras station chaplain, the Rev Jonathan Barker, takes Dominical Injunctions seriously.


Although Eye is struggling to find any specific reference to the use of Cherry Blossom in John 13.

Postman Patel RIP

The Fact Compiler missed this and now it is too late.

Postman Patel

With a bowler tip to dyspozytor

Pause for thought

***This from His Grace Archbishop Cranmer on the death of Jade Goody"

No shit Sherlock

***Man dies at London's Vauxhall station after urinating on train track***

Read the London Paper story here

Compass Rose

To paraphrase Holy Writ - "Can anything good come out of Porterbrook"?

Bucking the trend is Keith Rose, former Head of Safety at the ROSCO, who has become the new Chairman of the Railway Mission.

The Fact Compiler has a great fondness for the Railway Padres who have maintained a continuous pastoral presence, available to passengers and staff alike, on Britain's railways since 1881.

The mission's founding objective is to further “the moral and spiritual advancement of railway employees of all ages”. A role they continue today.

Keith is from the Evangelical tradition so, despite his elevation, those who meet him are advised not to try and kiss his ring.

Lettuce pray

His Holiness the Dalai Lama used East Midlands Trains to attend a rally of the faithful in Nottingham last week.

Pictured with His Holiness is Tim Shoveller, MD of EMT. Deal maker Shoveller denied that he was seeking enlightenment from His Holiness on how EMT might avoid the threatened recession.

The Fact Compiler understands that in an unrelated development EMT goes fully vegetarian from Monday.