Friday, 17 July 2009
Monday's announcement.
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So the Department will finally make its long awaited electrification announcement on Monday. Despite the delays this is no mean achievement,...
Tomorrow's papers
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A big hand to Virgin Trains! One possible headline for tomorrow's Sun. UPDATE: As predicted .
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Setback for Adonis, DafT and NXEC
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This just in from our man on the frontline at the Battle of the Barriers... Listed Building Consent application rejected by the City of York...
2009 Railway Garden Competition #9 - Chester (again)
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This from the Chester Chronicle ... FORMER Beirut hostage Terry Waite has criticised the state of Chester’s Railway Stati on. He wrote: “Nor...
Pointless signs #5
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Pointless signs #4
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2009 Railway Garden Competition #8
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This offering from the North end of platform 6 at Sheffield Station. What a splendid trip hazard. Good effort EMT and Network Rail.
Lookalike XXII - Dark Lord?
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White handbags at dawn
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Good news from the ludicrously named C2C... Essex train operator c2c has not only just become the best ever performing franchised train oper...
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
NXEA outsources revenue protection
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What a deeply unpleasant company National Express East Anglia is. This from the Londonist ... Sickened by freeloaders? Don't like the lo...
Wind-up in the Willows #3 (or Laudate Bowker!)
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Telegrammed by Leo Pink Good grief. How much faster does poor old Moley have to back pedal? Here he is yesterday - eulogising the same ...
Wind-up in the Willows #2
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Telegrammed by Leo Pink More brown trouser laundering by Moley . " The hon. Member for Peterborough asserted that other operators have...
First for benefitting from NatEx discomfort
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Telegrammed by Ithuriel When and if NXEC runs out of committed money and NatEx hands back the keys, it also gives DafT the £32 million perfo...
Wind-up in the Willows
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Telegrammed by Leo Pink It looks as though poor Moley has been given the task of cleaning up after Lord Adonis. With Marsham Street sufferin...
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
2009 Railway Garden Competition #7
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A slightly off the wall contribution from our International Correspondent. This railway has been subject to some neglect in recent weeks. In...
DafT - As you sow, so shall you reap
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There is certain information that voters and taxpayers might reasonably expect a Government department to know. Or at least have a reasonabl...
Legal advice on Cross Default "privileged and confidential"
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Eye wonders if the Noble Lord is beginning to rue his cocksure assertion that NatEx will loose all its franchises? This written answer given...
Pointless signs #3
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Met guidelines on photography
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This from the Metropolitan Police website (with a bowler tip to Obnoxio and The Register ) Freedom to photograph/film Members of th...
Pointless signs #2
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