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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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