Tuesday, 22 July 2008
No shit Sherlock
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*** Man dies at London's Vauxhall station after urinating on train track*** Read the London Paper story here
Proof is in the pudding
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Good news for David Cameron and his commitment to integrated transport. Conservative Guildford Borough Council has voted to end a free shutt...
Peter - we need you!
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The Fact Compiler has an apology to make. He has in the past accused DafT of being clueless. He accepts that this is not true. They are in f...
Monday, 21 July 2008
Little piggies
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The Tories have also put the boot into Network Rail following the publication of today's TSC report . Theresa Villiers, the eminently fo...
No respect for age
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Announcement overheard on a FGW service to Paddington this afternoon: " Just to remind people that there is a fully licenced buffet on ...
Can't count - won't count
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ORR recently published the annual station usage figures for 2006/7. The resulting media coverage made much of the fact that an alleged 84 mi...
Long live the Queen
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Whitehall and Network Rail heaved a collective sigh of relief when the Grim Reaper achieved what new Labour had failed to do by removing Gwy...
Sunday, 20 July 2008
Hendy goes with the bendy
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Telegrammed by The General Manager Have you noticed Peter Hendy's extraordinary re-invention of himself as a right-wing gent? In the lat...
Friday, 18 July 2008
Sex, religion, politics and railways
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The Fact Compiler likes to keep readers abreast of the doings of the great and the good. For instance next Wednesday will finally see Secret...
Close 2 Closure
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Good news for lovers of the English language. C2C, the ludicrously named franchise which serves London, Tilbury and Southend, has had its fr...
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...
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