Wednesday, 6 May 2009

RMT calls for renationalisation of East-Coast Line

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Bears crap in woods. Pope Catholic No shit Sherlock UPDATE 08/05/09: A slow news day at the FT. They actually ran with this tosh .

Safety question as barrier bites bike.

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More horror stories are emerging as the Battle of the Barriers rumbles on... This from a gentleman in Norwich who regularly passes through ...
Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Bowker - strange but true

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Telegrammed by The Velopodist Top of the bill at today's Railway Forum National Conference was beleaguered National Express Chief Execut...

Let the bells ring out in Whitehall

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Welcome back Edward Funnell. DafT needs you! UPDATE: This subliminal message is surprisingly contained within Virgin's latest TV ad. Ho...

Lookalike XVII - The Virgin Megamix

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Exciting news from the world of Adman, Adman, Bowtie and Glasses. Beardie himself is to appear in a new Virgin Trains commercial driving a d...

Transit joins the new neophiliacs

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So Transit is to become a monthly from May. It will also shift from broadsheet format to tabloid (or Berliner if you read the Gruaniad). But...

DfT fails to apologise for delays

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Ministers regularly excoriate TOCs and NR for late running so how is DafTs own record at delivering to passengers? This from a distinctly op...

Tuesday Tune

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With a bowler tip to Old Holborn ...

Buy paint shares NOW!

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Who would be a train operator on today's railway. Obviously the " thinly capitalised equity profiteers of the worst kind " can...

NatEx clutches at straws

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So what exactly is happening at National Express? A number of 'NatEx' friendly stories have been appearing in the media recently. Th...

Lookalike XVI

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Sunday, 3 May 2009

Meanwhile, down in the blogsphere

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Weird, but strangely believable... ObnoxiotheClown unmasked! Spooky, eh?

First for damaging small children?

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This extraordinary poster has appeared on the Thameslink network courtesy of FuCC. Well, at least they are honest... Can it be long before ...

Steam beano!

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Telegrammed by Eboracum (50A ) Who knew kettles could be so much fun? On page 7 of the latest issue of Steam Railway there is the following ...

"A villian forever more"

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The Sunday Times is reporting that National Express is moving to a ' management contract ' on its East Coast franchise National Expr...
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... ...