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Monday, 9 February 2009

Chinese puzzle

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Is there no end to the appetite of Grand Central? The ORR recently stated it was minded to grant the Open Access Operator a fourth path. Wit...

Special pleading

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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road The preferred loser and the winning also ran in the bidding for the Incredibly Expensive Procu...

King's Cross catering scandal

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Evidently there was a significant catering failure at King's Cross on Saturday. Here vast numbers of people desperately search for a ket...
Sunday, 8 February 2009

NX thrashes Eye!

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A huge upset following the publication of the UK.Railway Christmas Poll results! NX won the coveted ' Railway Website of the Year ' ...

Lookalike Vll

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Ave Noviomagus!

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Railway Eye salutes Chichester District Council! This courtesy of a Mr Murray. .. For those without bionic eyes... DVLA The Driver and Vehic...

Filey trial

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One to watch... Filey at heart of new railway crossing safety trials. Mind you with just 18 trains a day this shouldn't tax the technolo...

Lookalike Vl

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Lookalike V

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Saturday, 7 February 2009

Tornado flash mobbed!

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This just in from our Kettle Watcher... Turn up on your own with a camera at King's Cross on a 'normal' day and you are told to ...

London Midland News

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This just in from our man at the back... As this franchise lurches from one crisis to another, the RMT is calling for strike action at the e...

Snowball fight

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This just in from Sim Harris over at Rail Management ... Oh, dear. Yet another yearning for the old days . Let's not fall for the spell ...

Banzai

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Telegrammed by Admiral Tojo Sushi and Sake all round at Marsham Street on Monday night is the word on the tracks, with an announcement on Tu...
Friday, 6 February 2009

Free the platform 0

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Interesting mutterings from our man in the 4'. Perhaps best to avoid the Cross tomorrow. There are whispers of a protest, timed to coinc...

"Why do we just roll over and give in?"

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The Fact Compiler has received a missive from Nigel Harris over at Rail (and stalwart of the Great Central ). Nigel writes... Take a look at...

A question of manners

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Railway Eye has received a note via Twitter. Apparently uber-New-Labour blogger, Derek Draper, is following The Fact Compiler on Twitter! T...

We are not worthy!

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***A big tip of The Fact Compiler's bowler to dyspozytor over at Behind the Water Tower for this***

Day of the dead

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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road The railway industry official haruspex reports that next week there will be an announcement o...

Importance of Standards

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For goodness sake. What better evidence do you need for the dysfunctional state of the industry? As any fule kno Standards are central to th...

Jobs for the Choys?

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Telegrammed by The RSM Presumably the recent farago over Gordon's promise of 'British Jobs for British Workers' hasn't escap...
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