Sunday, 12 July 2009
Countering the passenger downturn
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***Boriswatch offers a neat suggestion ***
The Kraken Wakes
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And not before time! This from tomorrow's Daily Telegrap h... Network Rail's much-criticised corporate governance will be challenged...
Caption competition
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This extra-ordinary image reaches Eye from an ' Anonymous ' reader. It purports to show Paul Bigland, the Pictographer Royal, attend...
Pointless signs #1
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NR launches new level crossing lights
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This just in from a Mr Snow ... I wonder if Eye readers might have chanced on this natty little graduate brochure from NR. If you turn to p...
Readers letters
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Hello 'fact' compiler, You will probably find this totally humourless and stick it on your blog so you can take the piss out of it, ...
Who let the dogs out?
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Good news for the people of Kenilworth! This from a Network Rail press release : NETWORK RAIL INVESTS £950K IN A BETTER RAILWAY FOR KENILWOR...
NXEC takes the biscuit!
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This just in from ' 20 year commuter '... The service deterioration on National Express East Coast has been well documented by Eye. ...
Thursday, 9 July 2009
NXEA announces 10th July for 'End of the Pier Show'
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Despite My Lord Adonis consigning National Express' franchises to the dustbin of history the company is still looking on the bright side...
2009 Railway Garden Competition #6
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A particularly strong entry from Chester this year. This, their second submission within just two days (view Tuesday's here )! The lates...
2009 Railway Garden Competition #5
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Acid rain my derriere! At least, so it would appear from this splendid entry for the 2009 Railway Garden Competition. Pictured is Didcot. ...
Lord Adonis = Baron Marples!
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Good news indeed. Lord Adonis wants to play Ernest Marples to Gordon's Harold MacMillan. As the noble Lord reminds us, Marples had the v...
Lookalike XIX - How to recognise a junior DafT minister
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009
NatEx,Cross Default and another broken promise?
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This from Crow Bar Bob over at the RMT... “ Both Andrew Adonis, and Geoff Hoon before him, made it quite clear to RMT that if National Expr...
It doesn't rain but it pours
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This from the Independent ... Rail workers at a National Express train company are to be balloted for industrial action in a row over pay an...
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
2009 Railway Garden Competition #4
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As today is the 7th of the 7th, probably time for a spot of reflection... However! Good news. There is new life on the railway. This taken a...
Monday, 6 July 2009
Modally antagonistic
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This from New Civil Engineer ... Transport minister Chris Mole officially started work to widen the busy A46 in Nottinghamshire after the pr...
Face ache
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This from the Daily Telegraph ... Japanese railway workers face enforced "smile scans" every morning in a bid to boost their custo...
Three degrees of separation
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This just in from NR's Internet Rapid Rebuttal Unit... This is fantastic, a shot-for-shot re-creation of Top Gear level crossing crash i...
2009 Railway Garden Competition #3
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This verdant vista can be seen at Clapham Junction, Britain's busiest railway junction. Although frankly it could just as well be a bran...
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