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Friday, 24 July 2009

National Express - the song

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Eye has waited and waited and waited. And still no one has provided a new, improved, video mix of this song. Here it is in all its glory. An...

The Fact Compiler is old!

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This from Tom Harris ... SO FAREWELL, then, John Ryan, creator of Captain Pugwash and Mary, Mungo and Midge , that weird 1970s attempt to g...

2009 Railway Garden Competition #12

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Welcome to Middlesbrough! The Fact Compiler cannot decide whether it's the Railway Garden, or the Pacer, that is a greater symbol of neg...

2009 Railway Garden Competition #11

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Telegrammed by our Independent Expert The grass grows ever greener. We know that Kent is famed as the "Garden of England", but loo...

Pointless signs #6

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UPDATE: Lord Deltic of the Pan in the Counties of Brunel and Stephenson mischievously asks... Shouldn't these signs be in braille as wel...

Contempt of Parliament?

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A letter from Shadow Transport Minister, Stephen Hammond to Speaker Bercow: Dear Mr Speaker, I write to protest about the discourtesy shown...
Thursday, 23 July 2009

Sadiq says...

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Via Twitter ... I am spending plenty of times on our trains today. At Cabinet discussed historic announcement on electrification of various ...

Electrification - where the trains are going

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This just in from a Mr Saltaire... I wondered if Eye readers might appreciate a quick and dirty breakdown of what today's announcement m...

Ford Perfect

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The following has appeared on the WNXX forum , with a bowler tip to Driver Potter ... I think Roger Ford of Modern Railways Magazine has per...

Lookalike XXIII - 25kv into the Future

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Camera crime

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Oh dear. It looks like the Boys in Blue have been over zealous on the Underground again. This from Tuesday's Grauniad ... A woman is to ...

White flags fly at Marsham Street?

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Not so much rowing back, more the full 60 knot reversal! Theresa Villiers (Shadow Secretary of State for Transport) To ask the Minister of S...

2009 Railway Garden Competition #10 (Yes - Chester again...)

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This just in from Rich... As a reader for a while, I've been avidly following the Railway Garden Competition, and thought readers might ...

BBC news editors off the rails, part 94

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Telegrammed by our Independent Expert According to the 7.30am headlines on Radio Four this morning: " The government is to spend £1bn e...

Electrification - a plea

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Dear Lord Adonis Thank you for the promise to electrify various bits of the network. Would it be possible to avoid the mistakes of the past ...
Wednesday, 22 July 2009

We're in the money!

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***NR bosses have seen off a challenge to change the company's controversial bonus scheme***

Sparks and the Thunderer

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Oh dear. Allowing a Peer to announce Electrification via the Times may have upset Wapping's home team! This from Transport Corresponden...

New Apostle of the Pantograph - Electrification announced!

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That announcement!! In the Times here!! ! Bad luck Cardiff - Wapping had it first.

Readers letters

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Dear Fact Compiler, I have been a very good driver, having not gone on strike for the last twenty minutes and not looked at any filthy pu...

Electrification announcement latest, with added infill schemes

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Okay. So it's the Great Western Main Line, first stage Paddington to Oxford & Newbury; then on to Bristol via both Parkway and Bath....
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