Monday, 15 June 2009
Lookalike XX - NR abreast of the situation...
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Good news for West Coast Main Line Passengers. According to PR Week : Network Rail has appointed Iris to handle an integrated consumer PR an...
NESA on line, but not for long?
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Network Rail has spent enormous amounts of time and money creating a National Electronic Sectional Appendix ( NESA ). And a jolly good thing...
Car scrappage
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***The First Secretary announced that from the end of April until 7th June more than 60,000 car buyers have been given a £2,000 discount for...
The disturbing case of the missing NIR
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Telegrammed by 221b Baker Street 'I say, Holmes, what do you make of the disturbing case of the Pacer engine, found near Olive Mount ju...
Open Access: Railways and social media
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Guest columnist Ben Smith , a technology consultant and a founder of The Really Mobile Project , argues that railway companies should use so...
Saturday, 13 June 2009
ATOC issues old record
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Deep breath. It would appear that private sector Train Operating Companies want to reopen lots of stations! This from the Sunday Telegraph ....
Bin laiden?
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A naughty reader has sent Eye the following picture: Amusing captions invited. Unless of course it is just a bin at Fort William? UPDATE: A ...
Lord Adonis - prove Gordon right
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After a febrile couple of weeks Gordon Brown now assures us that his administration is listening to the people. Denied the General Election ...
Rumble in the bungle
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Good news for Scott Wilson. According to Building magazine: " Scott Wilson has emerged as the big winner from the latest round of cont...
Lost and found #1
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Found! One Pacer engine from yesterday's 19.37 Blackpool to Liverpool service . Discovered trackside between Broadgreen station and Wav...
Thursday, 11 June 2009
A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma
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Telegrammed by the Velopodist I wonder if your readers can help me to solve a puzzle. The Rail, Maritime and Transport Union insists its str...
A new era unfurls #2
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Virgin West Coast PPM on Wednesday 10th June 2009 55.9%. " A new era will unfold on the West Coast Main Line " Iain Coucher, Decem...
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
A new era unfurls #1
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Good news for the freight community. Today saw the official opening of Telford International Railfreight Terminal. Shadow Secretary of State...
For you ze football is over
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As Gordon Brown prepares to meet the remaining members of England's 1966 World Cup winning squad at Downing Street today more good news ...
New Thameslink 4000 boss
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Network Rail has announced that Jim Crawford will be new programme director of the £5.5bn Thameslink upgrade. Mr Crawford is currently the p...
Pyramid of piffle
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Naughty Boris and naughty Transport for London! With London crippled by the RMT Underground strike TfL has been glibly assuring passengers t...
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Gordon promises a constitutional referendum
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This from the BBC ... But of course. Once we've been allowed the previous one, what got err... cancelled. Pray do not take the p1ss.
Trespass on the railway
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This from the Messenger ... Czech immigrant, Staneslav Zalesky, 31, got on the line at Trafford Park Station on the evening of August 3, 200...
Skimbleshanks agrees
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Telegrammed by J Alfred Prufrock This from Nigel's blog over at Rail ... I’ve been a railway journalist since 1981 and that’s not how I ...
Department for Transport ministerial team
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The full list... Secretary of State for Transport - Lord Adonis Minister of State - Sadiq Khan MP (attends Cabinet when Ministerial respon...
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