Sunday, 19 July 2009
DB illustrates Teutonic efficiency
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This just in from ' die Bordsteinschwalb e' ... Have you noticed that S-Bahn Berlin has only 330 vehicles available out of 1260? It ...
Knights that go ni
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Good news from the Stobart Group! This from today's Financial Mail ... Transport and logistics group Eddie Stobart - famous for its flee...
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Pointless signs #5
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UPDATE: This from a Mr Holt... I was amused that the dump that is Macclesfield could claim to be Cheshire's best kept station. However,...
Vote for your top 10 political blogs
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Iain Dale is asking blog readers to vote for their top 10 favourite blogs. Email your ten favourite blogs (ranked from 1-10) to toptenblogs@...
Henry Allingham RIP
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This from the BBC ... Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen, has died at the age ...
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...
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