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Monday, 15 September 2008

Turncoat

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From our man at 222 Marylebone Road Has the Fact Compiler gone native? Rail Minister Tom Harris returned from his Centre Parcs holiday and p...

Railway Garden Competition #10

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The Fact Compiler has received the following entry from a Mr Rayner of Ambergate. It shows a truly venerable railway garden. As Mr Rayner ex...

Number crunching #1

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Nice work if you can get it Go-Ahead increase in pre-tax profits - 19.1% Increase in London Midland off peak fares - 15% Go-Ahead carries ...
Sunday, 14 September 2008

Room uptop

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It's party conference time and The Fact Compiler has been invited to attend a series of Network Rail and ATOC shindigs where 'Team R...

Memory loss

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The Tories are having a field day putting the boot into Gordon and Shriti's disastrous Tube privatisation. Quick to jump on a bandwagon,...

The buck stops where?

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The Fact Compiler once worked for a guv'nor who told his staff: " Where there is success, it is your success; if there is a problem...

Anorak

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High praise indeed. A thread on Tory Troll says that Railway Eye is like ' Guido Fawkes in an anorak '. Interestingly Tory Troll...

Frankenstein sighted

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Express Rail Alliance, the Bombardier & Siemens joint venture bidding to produce the IEP, has released some images of what their train m...
Saturday, 13 September 2008

Live from St Pancras

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Telegrammed by 'Brochet' at 16:00 From the vantage point of the Betjeman Arms at St Pancras it all seems pretty quiet. Eurostar runn...
Friday, 12 September 2008

Finally...

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EUROSTAR STATEMENT 12 September 2008 – 16.30 (UK time) update Due to the incident involving a Eurotunnel shuttle train in the Channel T...

Pure merde

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Three hundred British and French firemen took 16 hours to extinguish the fire that started in the southbound Channel Tunnel yesterday . So f...

A lot less Franks

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***Transit reports that David Franks is to start surrendering operational control of National Express East Coast to deputy Susan Goldsmith, ...

Get a grip

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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Those who forget the past are condemned to relive it - and how! Eurotunnel's Richard (...

Back to the drawing board

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Telegrammed by our independent expert Nothing does more to expose the ignorance of national newspaper hacks about railways than the product...
Thursday, 11 September 2008

Continent cut off!

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Chaos today when a burning Chunnel freight shuttle brought international rail travel between Britain and abroad to a complete stand. With pa...

Charidee

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Railway Eye has been contacted by The Transport Benevolent Fund asking for help recruiting a full time organizer. The Fact Compiler is delig...

Whimsey

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Telegrammed by our man in 222 Marylebone Road. Switching on the CERN Collider yesterday seems to have momentarily opened a wormhole into a ...

Those whom the gods seek to destroy...

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In the privatised railway of today companies come and go. Who now remembers the former FM or Mainline Rail? Hopefully not many, as the indiv...
Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Lifted

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Telegrammed by The Master Railway Eye readers may remember that Ruth Kelly was subject to much ridicule when she told the Transport Select C...
Tuesday, 9 September 2008

Busted flush

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After Metronet went bust it couldn't be long before the wheels fell off Tube Lines as well. Today they have - see BBC piece here . One p...
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