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Saturday, 21 June 2008

Spot the Crank #3

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There was a time when this Gentleman was so far to the left that the photographer would have had to be in the Guard's van to get his pic...

Que bono?

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Who stands to benefit from today's leak that Network Rail is to undertake a review into the construction of five new main lines? Not Net...
Friday, 20 June 2008

Double Dutch

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BASEL (Reuters) - Switzerland's national railway has told its workers to stop using their normal orange reflective vests after confused...

Priced off the rails

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Heritage Railways are suffering from rising fuel prices. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway has threatened to reduce services as a growing nu...

Compass Rose

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To paraphrase Holy Writ - "Can anything good come out of Porterbrook"? Bucking the trend is Keith Rose, former Head of Safety at t...

Minister says sorry to bloody miserable Britons

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Transport minister Tom Harris has apologised for asking why Britons are 'so bloody miserable'. In his blog post titled ' Heaven ...

A victim of the WCRM?

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Tom Harris provides an update on fans of his blog "Today, as I was driving home up the M6, I received two calls from journalists. Appar...
Thursday, 19 June 2008

Not fit for purpose

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Chris Bolt today announced that the Office of Rail Regulation would produce its own strategy for the railways. Predicting record growth and...

Pillow talk

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It is well known that the Welsh Assembly Government and Arriva Trains Wales work closely together. But it took the press to discover quite ...
Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Planning ahead

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***Determined not to be caught out by ORR again, Iain Coucher has summoned TOC owner groups to a meeting on the 1st July to discuss CP5 ! *...

Angel double counting?

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***According to the latest Rail Business Intelligence the 14 five car Cl180 units are going to remain on-lease to First.*** This may come as...

London to lose O'Toole?

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A report from Railway Eye's International Correspondent: Tim O'Toole, MD of LUL, looks set to return to his native America if a mult...
Tuesday, 17 June 2008

HMG sets NR an example

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***HMG has decreed that Government ministers will give up their pay rise for the forthcoming year. A welcome development that would have bee...

Rugby balls

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***The Fact Compiler is being deluged with emails from passengers on the West Coast Main Line where yet another signal failure at Rugby is p...

Sursum corda

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***Alistair Osbourne in the Daily Telegraph is touting LCR's Rob Holden as a successor to NR's stay at home chairman Ian MacAlliste...

Surreal

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***Martin Waller in The Times' City Diary reflects on the award, in The Queen's birthday honours list, of a "K" to Worst ...
Monday, 16 June 2008

IEP RIP?

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It's almost July and the DafT boys and girls are looking forward to their summer holidays. And if there is a particular spring in their ...

Fares freeze?

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David Cameron unveiled the Tories "Blue/Green Charter" today. In his speech Cameron lamented "packed and expensive trains...

Micromanagement

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Much excitement at DafT this morning following reports from Down Under that Rio Tinto plans to introduce diverless trains on its 800 mile fr...

Fare's fair

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The gents of the press have an uncanny knack of plucking out the most expensive prices from the fares book when they want to run their fav...
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