Saturday, 2 May 2009
O'Toole goes to First Group!
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A tip of the bowler to I Work For First Great Western for this... Tim O’Toole and Colin Hood will join the Board of FirstGroup as Independe...
Adonis on fare increases
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The latest issue of Rail has secured a nice quote from My Lord Adonis. During the Pilgrimage of Grice the rail minister used an All Line Ra...
Friday, 1 May 2009
Corporate manslaughter
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This from Longrider ... I’ll be watching this one with interest. Not least because it is likely to set a precedent and, because this new law...
WiFi tangled web
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Whilst the rest of the media swallowed whole Virgin's latest puff piece about the introduction of on-train wifi the geek press was not s...
Be afraid, be very afraid
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This from NCE ... Tube Lines appoints Dean Finch as chief executive To paraphrase Mrs Malaprop: Tube Lines' loss is First's gain... ...
Read and weep, O Ye Philistines!
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Telegrammed by our Independent Expert The memorial to the great locomotive engineer as photographed at Edinburgh Waverley station on Wedn...
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Swine Flu
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A little something for the office... TOC's may wish to affix in a prominent position in carriages .
Planning for the future
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Telegrammed by the Master NR's reputation for customer service will take a great leap forward from 2010 when the Leeds train planning of...
Swine flu shocker
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Bum steer from Greengauge?
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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road According to a Press Release... Anticipating progressive improvement in energy efficiency and...
Professional is, as professional does...
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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road According to the latest issue of Rail Professional the Department for Transport is... "....
RMT cuts off nose to spite face?
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This just in from the RMT ... RMT ANNOUNCED today that around 1000 rail engineering members at Jarvis, will be taking industrial action on M...
Update on the SofS meeting with the unions
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This from the Evening Standard ... Sack 'Buff Hoon' say rail unions Went well then!
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
More spun than spinned against.
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Someone's been a naughty boy! This from The Grauniad on the 13th April: The government is considering a £250m stimulus package for the ...
Crossrail doomed?
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This from Simon Jenkins in the Evening Standard ... Kill Crossrail to save the Tube. Is the recession about to claim its first major railway...
Wolmar's sexy singles shocker
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Eye readers may recall that Labour MP and uber-blogger Tom Harris was caught advertising Caviar and Foie Gras on his blog. Now Wolmar's...
Straitscoach woes
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All appears not to be well between Stagecoach and DafT. This from Stagecoach's Trading Update : The Group is also providing an update on...
Monday, 27 April 2009
Coucher issues challenge to NR
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Near unalloyed joy last week, amongst the TOC community, following Iain Coucher's intervention on fares. Speaking to the FT after his s...
Cost of TGV .v. Crossrail - a hack writes
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This just in from Robert Wright over at the 'Pink 'Un'... "Ithuriel is perhaps being a little disingenuous in his recent pi...
The real Parry people mover
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***Richard Parry to be London Underground's interim MD*** UPDATE: The Fact Compiler's view can be found over at Boris Watch ...
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