Friday, 10 April 2009
How the railway works #3
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Readers may recollect that National Express East Anglia is to receive 120 new Electrostar vehicles. In these financially straitened tim...
Bernard Staite RIP
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It was with great sadness that the Eye heard this morning of the death of Bernard Staite. Picture from the Erlestoke Manor Fund An obituary ...
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Holy Grail? No thanks, we already have one!
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Much excitement on Radio 4's 'You and Yours' this morning. Robin Gisby, NR's superslick Director of Operations, claimed that...
50 bob Bowker
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As predicted by the Eye way back on the 6th January National Express is to start charging for reservations. From 17th May both National Exp...
The difference between TfL and NR bonuses
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This from the Gruaniad ... Transport for London chiefs have drawn up plans to freeze around 1,000 managers' pay and review bonuses as si...
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Police poster campaign
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Telegrammed by Lord Peter Whimsy Make your own here ...
Namealike #2
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More angry letters in the latest issue of Rail over the IEP award to Hitachi. One reader, a Dr M J Provost who writes from Nottingham, make...
Adonis on the cushions!
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This from The Times ... No red signal when minister plays with train set All aboard the Adonis Express. Frustrated commuters will get dire...
In place of strife?
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Has Bob Crow had a Damascene conversion? This just in from the RMT ... “We are available for talks to sort this problem out, but blatantly b...
What's in a name?
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This from the latest ' Rail Users Express ', edited by Tony Smale... "The North Devon Rail Users’ Group is to change its name t...
Monday, 6 April 2009
OFFICIAL: DafT can no longer be trusted
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Telegrammed by Ithuriel When it comes to re-writing the past, DafT makes the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia look like the King James Bible for t...
Sunday, 5 April 2009
Semana Santa
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This from the Talyllyn Railway ... Stations of the Cross In collaboration with Tywyn Churches Together, the Talyllyn Railway will be running...
Lookalike XV
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Saturday, 4 April 2009
Lookalike XlV
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UPDATE: This from a concerned reader... Dear Fact Compiler You're worrying yourself about the trees of whom Rupert Brennan Brown, the ve...
Lookalike Xlll
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Lookalike Xll
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Lookalike Xl
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Friday, 3 April 2009
A muesli muncher writes...
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This just in from a frustrated reader... The Fact Compiler is quite right to have a go at the Lib Dems and their whining about Britain...
Norman wisdom...
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Are the LibDem's Transport Team clutching at straws? The muesli munchers have been bombarding anyone foolish enough to give them an emai...
Yet more fiscal imprecision
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Telegrammed by J Arthur Prufrock DfT says the 120 Electrostar vehicles will cost £160 million. BREL, sorry, Bombardier tells the local pre...
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