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Monday, 27 July 2009

Sadiq says...

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Via Twitter ... Just had my 1st meeting with Passenger Focus - their job to stand up for commuters on rail (buses too soon) Good discussion ...

Super Excess would be a better name

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This from a Mr Saltaire... Remember the Eurostar court case which resulted in the railway coughing up damages and costs to a courier company...

2009 Railway Garden Competition #13

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This just in from Bushy... This is Euston downside carriage shed, taken this morning... Note the contrasting graffiti... Disgraceful, it loo...
Sunday, 26 July 2009

New diesel trains unveiled

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Now that My Lord Adonis has caped new diesel trains here's an idea whose time may have come. And with all the money going on electrifica...
Saturday, 25 July 2009

Gordon Brown wields the handbag!

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This just in from Lord Deltic of Pan in the Counties of Brunel and Stephenson ... Announcing the decision to embark on a programme of electr...

A summer Saturday enlightened by Lady Theresa of Chipping Barnet

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Telegrammed by the Globetrotter Shadow Transport Secretary, Theresa Villiers wastes no time in jumping onto the bandwagon following the Tran...

Harry Patch RIP

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Harry Patch, the last British survivor of the Kaiser's War on the Western Front, has died. What a generation! We will not forget. Requi...
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 ...
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