Thursday, 17 July 2008
Naughty naughty
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Naughty Open Access Operator Grand Central has been served with an Improvement Notice. View the ORR list of Improvement Notices here . The F...
Railway Garden Competition #2
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St Pancras International A nice entry from Eurostar. Notice the clever use of recycled objects (including an ice bucket) to frame this par...
Railway Garden Competition #1
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Portsmouth & Southsea Station Note the way that discarded bolts in the 4' compliment the verdant foliage. And here how the station s...
Eurotunnel to bid for HS1
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***Eurotunnel expects to be a bidder for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link if, as expected, HMG puts it up for sale next year.*** See Thomson Fin...
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Pulled-out?
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Much excitement in the Charter Train community. Rumours have it that publication of the next glossy Stobart Pullman brochure may be delayed....
Pritchard joins TSC
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***TransCom Release*** NEW MEMBER ELECTED TO SERVE ON TRANSPORT COMMITTEE On Monday 14 July the House agreed that Mr Mark Pritchard MP (Cons...
Monday, 14 July 2008
Big boys toy
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***Steve Norris, former London Mayoral candidate and Jarvis Executive Chairman is being touted as the new Chairman of Cross London Rail Link...
Sorry - the hardest word
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National Express loathes Open Access Operators and would do almost anything to stop Hull Trains and Grand Central services running on the Ea...
Ecce homo
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The Fact Compiler has been supplied with these two remarkable images. One shows someone surrounded by a diminishing band of supporters, abou...
One less Nobby at SWT
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A metaphorical bouquet goes to SWT following the retirement after forty three years of ‘Nobby’ (Alan Haynes) - an Area Route Controller base...
ECML paths
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***CORRECTION: Sources indicate that Network Rail has determined that there are no additional paths available on the East Coast Mainline for...
Barking
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The Fact Compiler has received an agitated email from a gentleman endeavouring to reduce endemic overcrowding on the bus and railway network...
Minister manages ECML
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Parliamentary Written Answer given on 10th July "Tom Harris (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Glasgow South, L...
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Aslef bollocks
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The brave Aslef boys and girls would never do anything to compromise safety. It is only right, therefore, that they hold an extra-ordinary b...
Prairie Oyster
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***There was a significant failure of TfL's Oyster ticketing system this morning with readers on both buses and Tube stations unable to ...
Friday, 11 July 2008
Stop complaining fatty
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Good news from the Department for Transport which, rather than doing what it says on the tin and worrying about how to get us from A to B, i...
Thamesfunk
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From our man at 222 Marylebone Road If DafT reckons it can spend £1.4bn on 1100 vehicles to a specification no current design can meet... ....
Is there a Doctor in the house
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More mutterings about the PassengerFocus National Passenger Survey. Regular readers will recollect that publication of the survey was delaye...
Derby lightweight
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With an incredibly tight timetable for introduction of the new Thameslink fleet the smart money must be on Bombardier. The first units are d...
I know, but ask him to tell me
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It is an established fact that the Department for Transport does not micro-manage the railway. As is well known DafT would rather set broad ...
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