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Wednesday, 21 January 2009

Monday's meeting with the SoS

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Somebody, somewhere, is not telling the truth. The consensus amongst the transport hacks ( Grauniad , Independent & Times ) is that the...

Give us your fooking money

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Telegrammed by our International Correspondent The National Railway Museum has its begging bowl out again. According to the NRM the cost of ...

Randall and TOC-groups (Deceased)

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Rail hack Chris Randall writes... "Thought you might be interested to see a piece in last November’s Rail Professional , in which I pre...

Share pledges

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This from the Daily Telegraph ... They include Brian Souter, chief executive, who pledged 24m shares worth £28.7m. With environmental pre...

Crossrail Complaints Commissioner

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This from the DfT... Transport Minister Andrew Adonis and London Mayor Boris Johnson today announced the appointment of Tony Gregory as the ...

MPs Expenses

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This from the BBC ... Gordon Brown is to order Labour MPs to back a controversial plan to exempt details of MPs' expenses from the Freed...

Norries

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Telegrammed by Barry Spotter With the Stourbridge Branch still awaiting the introduction of the comedy Plastic Parry Mover, bustitution rema...

"The awarding procedure has been discontinued."

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***Is this an omen?***
Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Leading from the front?

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So London Midland has apologised for their dreadful recent performance. Read Steve Banaghan's frank admission here . As Go-Ahead is obvi...

Year Zero... and some

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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road DafT, which of course has nothing to do with new trains allocation, is expected to announce on...

It's a fare cop!

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When faced with difficult questions the Department for Transport prefers others to do their dirty work. Latest to come to DafT's rescue ...

Lengthy inquiry

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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch was formed to help improve railway safety. It is tasked with investigating accidents and incidents on...

Whitewash

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***More froth from SWT!***

Zimbabwe election

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Good news for fans of corporate governance. This from the national infrastructure owner.... Network Rail today announced its new designate c...
Sunday, 18 January 2009

Repentant sinner?

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The Sunday Times has further details on the company DafT has set up to progress HS2. The business section names top civil servants Bob Linn...

30/- short

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Good to see The Observer has been paying attention! Dan Milmo reports today that potless National Express East Coast is planning to char...
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...
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