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Saturday, 31 January 2009

Best Kept-Secret Station Award

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Telegrammed by Our Friend in the North Its nice to know that the increased income from above-inflationary fare rises is being ploughed back ...
Friday, 30 January 2009

ORR proposed decision on ECML access rights

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Telegrammed by the Timetable Compiler For those who missed it yesterday this is what it says in brief : Yes to HT 7th path, Yes to GC's...
Thursday, 29 January 2009

Fiends of the NRM

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Son of York and railway robber baron George Hudson would be tickled pink. Moir Lockhead and Richard Bowker have been appointed Vice Presiden...

Down the tubes

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***1,000 jobs to go at London Underground and TfL***

Movers and schenkers

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***Former LU & EWS man, Patrick Butcher , to be NR's new Director of Finance***
Wednesday, 28 January 2009

Deluded fools

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Goods news for fans of Guided bus routes. This from Portsmouth Today ... A high-speed bus route on a disused railway track is set to get cou...

Why the railways cost so much

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This from the Press and Journal ... Scottish train operator First ScotRail, which put up many of its fares by 6% at the start of this year, ...
Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Parking charges parked?

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Station car parking charges are unregulated and therefore provide a highly lucrative revenue stream for increasingly cash strapped TOCs. Nor...

Lookalike lll

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Oh no it's not!

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When is a franchise commitment not a franchise commitment? When DafT says so, silly! Bowler tip to Rail Manager on Line for these gems: Thi...

PR News

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As any fule kno a good PR man has to be up to date and ahead of the curve. But what's this? A quick visit to the website of soi disant ...

Lookalike ll

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Lookalike

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Monday, 26 January 2009

First seeks return of Broad Gauge

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Exciting news from First Group! Vehicles maintained by the Aberdeen company's US subsidiary, First Vehicle Services, play an important p...

Orders up

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This from DfT... The Department for Transport held its second annual Listening to Industry Day on Thursday 22 January. The purpose of the ev...

Fantasy island II

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Man congratulates boss on good idea! This from NCE ... Crossrail executive chairman Doug Oakervee said today that he was ' encouraged ...

Fantasy island

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***Boriswatch has the latest details of Estuary Aerodrome - including proposed links into the rail network***

Fall-Behind capitulates

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Go-Ahead must still think they are in with a chance on the South Central franchise. This from the Kent News ... Train company U-turns on car...

OFFICIAL: Daft does nothing

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At last a spot of honesty from the Department for Transport! A number of trade titles, including Modern Railways, are running DafT ads for F...

Tornado avoids scrapmen

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This from the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust: The second run of The Peppercorn Pioneer on Sunday 1st February 2009 will now start from Doncaster ...
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