Monday, 12 January 2009
Cancelled due to lack of interest?
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H ow fairs the new, improved, DafT specified, Arriva CrossCountry network? All is much the same except that it is nigh on impossible to trav...
Sunday, 11 January 2009
Poll pot
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The latest Trainsadrine survey sounds nearly as scientific as those of Railway Eye. According to their latest press release... "The res...
Police evidence
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They can't mean this can they? This from the BBC ... Acting Sgt Sarah Price, from Devon and Cornwall Police, said: " There has been...
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Wessex was brilliant!
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All appears not to be well in Devon & Cornwall judging by a naughty video that has appeared on Photobucket. Not for the feint hearted, o...
Friday, 9 January 2009
Going, going, gone?
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Timing as they say is everything. Smart money suggested that Go-Ahead would keep it's head down after turning London Midland into a disa...
Prepare for Opposition!
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Railway Eye salutes the generosity of Lord Adonis! This self serving tosh from DafT... " Passengers who have suffered during a week of...
The Case of the Silent Dog (Episode 2)
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"I say, Holmes, aren't you being a little hard on the ORR? They have produced a statement after all." "Indeed, Watson, an...
Highway robbery
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If only DafT and Cambridge County Council had listened to Cast Iron - the lobby group seeking to return a railway line to St Ives. This fro...
Baggage train
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Exciting news from Network Rail! According to a press release Waterloo passengers are to " benefit from Europe's largest ticket g...
Road to nowhere
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Looks like BoJo's decision last year to cape the Dagenham Dock extension has hit the DLR hard. Indeed if this page, on the TfL website ,...
The Case of the Silent Dog
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Telegrammed by 221b Baker Street 'I say, Holmes, what do you make of the mysterious case of the falling West Coast Main Line catenary? ...
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Ghost bus
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This from The Times... " The ' ghost bus ' runs simply to allow the Government to escape the embarrassment of admitting that it...
Ozymandi'm back again
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Thought for the day As a 110 mile/h TSR is imposed on the WCML fast lines between Euston and Rugby, Iain (WCML Job Done) Coucher might reca...
Mystic Wright
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This in today's FT... Virgin demands rail reliability A spot of prescient reporting by Mr Wright .
The 25kv Group
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Telegrammed by 222 Marylebone Road The current daily, or even twice daily, major failures of the overhead line electrification on the WCML a...
An end to electrification woes
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Telegrammed by Barry Spotter Worried about pulling down the wires? Concerned that you might have to rebuild dozens of bridges and lower the ...
Electrification - An apology
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Railway Eye would like to apologise to readers for past stories that may have given the impression that we believed further electrification ...
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Park and robbed
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The Fact Compiler's brother, The Timetable Compiler , has been in touch. Reuben, for it is he, writes: "It's not just fares tha...
Dining out?
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A Happy New Year to National Express East Coast passengers as the company slashes the number of restaurant car services. This from the Yorks...
Limited and questionable?
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The first foot in mouth award for 2009 goes to the LibDems. Railway Eye readers may recollect that former rail minister Tom Harris was on re...
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