Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Bombardier puts monkeys in front of typewriters
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Exciting news from Bombardier! As the recession bites the rolling stock manufacturer is now getting passengers to design their own trains! A...
Ben Fisher RIP
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This obituary from the Grauniad ... Ben Fisher, who has died unexpectedly aged 45, was an inspiring teacher of French at Bangor University a...
Monday, 26 October 2009
Golden Whistle Awards launched
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Modern Railways is to celebrate best railway operating practice with Golden Whistle Awards. More details at the MR website . About time too!...
On whose say so?
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No, no, no, no, no! EU representatives have said that if Mr Blair became President of the EU Council he would expect to travel in a cavalca...
Pointless signs - St Andrew's Road
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Southern unveils... Captain Permatan
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This exciting news from Southern... The Marketing team have been working with a top advertising agency (sic), who are responsible for the ‘1...
WSMR doomed?
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This from Railnews ... WSMR Managing director Andy Hamilton said: ‘ Considering the current revenue position of Wrexham & Shropshire an...
2009 Railway Garden Competition - Malaysia
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This just in from Paul Bigland .... I'm back in the UK now and thought you'd like these images for the international railways garden...
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Specialists prove pope catholic - shocker!
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This from the department of the bleedin' obvious and posted round various depots... SPECIAL NOTICE Seasonal Weather Warning Advance repo...
Revolution's top ten tweeters
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New-media savy Richard Baker makes it into Revolution's top ten tweeters @richard_baker General Manager for Virgin Trains Liverpool, ...
Friday, 23 October 2009
First Directly Operated Railways
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Rumours on the interweb that FCC's Customer Services Director is to join DOR. Mutterings from other owner groups that First Class Partne...
Railway not getting its message across!
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Total Politics has published its list of Top 100 Public Affairs Professionals . Sigh! Spot the missing industry. UPDATE: This from the Major...
Mixed trains return to the ECML?
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Telegrammed by our Independent Expert Looks like hard-up NXEC is bringing back mixed trains. Senior Conductor on a packed HST from Newcastle...
Level crossings - a request for consistency
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Network Rail has been busy reminding drivers and pedestrians of the dangers of level crossing abuse. Such as this story from the BBC ... Net...
Friday safety briefing
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This from 'Is 1A03 out of Chester yet, Bert?' Can you spot the significant safety failing in this video? That's correct. The har...
A beautiful city...
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This from the National Rail website : Engineering work affecting Arriva Trains Wales from Monday ...
RMT claims mass dismissal threat
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This from the RMT... RAIL UNION RMT revealed today that Network Rail have threatened to sack their entire maintenance workforce of 13,000 an...
Twitter news
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According to the Hansard Society... Percentage of Conservative MPs on Twitter: 6% Percentage of Labour MPs on Twitter: 13% Percentage of Lib...
Kettle heaven
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The A1 Truss appears to be rewriting history... Good effort!
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Pointless signs - RVAR edition
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