Saturday, 17 January 2009
Going for a song
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Telegrammed by our Independent Expert Mysteriouser and mysteriouser. Could the case of the missing Victorian ironwork from Primrose Hill sta...
Friday, 16 January 2009
Herod opens kindergarten
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Dear God! This from Transit ... The DfT’s former permanent secretary Sir David Rowlands is to chair a new company to take forward plans for ...
Thursday, 15 January 2009
You lucky people!
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Telegrammed by the Archer Heathrow gets a third runway The roads get another £6bn The railway gets…. ...a new company to help consider the c...
It's off, it's on, it's off, it's on...
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***The Conservatives will cancel the expansion of Heathrow if they win the next General Election, Shadow Transport Secretary Theresa Villier...
Meanwhile, on the real railway...
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Telegrammed by our Independent Expert Transport Secretary Geoff "Doom" today announced grandiose plans for a new "HS2" f...
Feint praise
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Good news for SWT passengers Whilst DfT has prevented the TOC closing many ticket offices there may be no one left to staff them. This just ...
DafT surrenders!
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Good news for the Roscos. Following the embarrassment of the Competition Commission pointing out that it was DafT's own franchising poli...
Heathrow Terminal 3
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The interesting bits from DafT's announcement: The creation of a new company - High Speed 2 - to help consider the case for new high spe...
Greater Reichs Bahn
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Despite earlier denials Deutsche Bahn have now confirmed that they are interested in Eurostsar. This from Reuters ... 'LCR, whose princi...
Better Housekeeping
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As SWT evidently need to save money The Fact Compiler has a suggestion. Why not fire your media agency? After all there is not much point in...
Train formation changes
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Good house keeping or signs of a deepening recession? You decide. This from the BBC ... Brings back happy memories of NSE in the 1980s...
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
New Rosco
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The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Corporation (BTMUCC) has launched a new rolling stock leasing company. The new entity already has 2...
Toot, toot
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Good news from our caring, sharing, modally-agnostic Government: According to Downing Street " The 450 Jaguar-Land Rover staff who hav...
Not guilty!
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Charming! ' Zeppelin raid fatalities blamed on railway '. Presumably Prince Harry's nick-name faux pax means we can no longer fi...
I'd like to thank my accountant...
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Telegrammed by 222 Marylebone Road With the credit crunch tightening and even Eurostar revenue flat, industry black tie bun-fights - sorry -...
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Chester upon Hamlyn
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Something to delight those who know Chester station. This from the Chester Chronicle ... Dozens of pet rats dumped at Chester Railway Stati...
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...
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