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Tuesday, 23 June 2009

RMT doing the day job

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The London Living Wage for Underground cleaners? Seems fair enough, it's a dirty shitty job and £7.60 an hour in London is not unreasona...

Talyllyn restructures

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***UK.Railway reporting that the Talyllyn has lost its General Manager due to the railway's " serious ongoing financial problems ...

Cuban heels

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Good news from 'Crow Bar' Bob and the RMT: RMT GENERAL secretary Bob Crow will be joined by Alabama 3, Aleida Guevara (Che Guevara’...

Network Rail Public Membership

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Applications to join NR's ' Stepford Wives ' closed on the 12th June. The Membership Selection Panel (MSP) hopes to write in the...

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road What a soft job speech writers have at the Department for Transport. All they have to do is di...

A new era unfurls #3

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Good news for the West Coast Main Line. According to Transport Briefing yesterday: Network Rail is to pump a further £50m into the West Coa...

No good deed goes unpunished!

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Telegrammed by Leo Pink Chile, having stood by Britain during the Falklands War, is now being targeted for retribution by the Foreign ...

Chinese take-away

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***RMT saying MTR out of bidding for Tyne and Wear metro***
Monday, 22 June 2009

2009 Railway Garden Competition #1

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It's that time of year again. Welcome back to the Railway Garden Competition . Our first entry comes from Barking. Beautiful. And how re...
Saturday, 20 June 2009

Hello. Hello. Hello.

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This from the government's Digital Britain report published last Tuesday: " mobile network operators... to provide and fund soluti...

Khan's conflict of interests?

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Campaigning lawyer Louise Christian, of Christian Khan solicitors, is demanding a public enquiry into the Grayrigg accident . Hopefully th...

Parliamentary news

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Good news from the mother of XXXXXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXX has confirmed that he is to announce the XXXXXX XX XXX XX XXXX XXXXX on XXXXXX. Prime Mi...

Virgin struggles

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This from 'Dreadnought'... I was interested to see your little extract from Virgin and their ambitions for the Glasgow market . On W...

When silence really is golden

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This piece of grandstanding tosh from the Tories: Commenting on the news that the Government has ruled out an inquiry into the Potters Bar a...
Friday, 19 June 2009

Severn Valley to avoid doomsday?

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Telegrammed by our Independent Expert Do BBC news editors ever travel by train? Thursday's News at Ten reported on the global warming th...

DRS to strike

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***ASLEF announce DRS strike days ***

Calls to gate Glasgow Central

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Telegrammed by Leo Pink So Network Rail are keen to discourage feral youth from loitering at Glasgow Central station? The obvious solution ...

Again... Who speaks for the Railway?

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This from the BBC ... The government is wrongly prioritising investment in rail over roads, despite 92% of all passenger journeys in the UK ...

Electrification creeps closer?

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Network Rail yesterday issued an OJEU in connection with the proposed electrification of the Midland and Great Western mainlines. Optimistic...

Wish you were here

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Brighton is the most metropolitan of seaside resorts. So it came as no surprise to see Messrs Ludeman, Souter & Eccles taking the South ...
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