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Tuesday, 10 November 2009

SWT to open new ticket offices

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Exciting news from South West Trains (with a bowler tip to @swlines ) Eye readers may recall the recent furore over SWT's plans to clos...

LM Chief Exec blames everyone else

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Telegrammed by Golden Connection Exciting news from the latest splendid edition of New Transit magazine . In an insightful piece Permatan Ra...

Lookalike - The Glasnost years

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With a bowler tip to Eliot .

Doomed London Midland slapped with wet fish

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Disastrous GoAhead franchise London Midland has been severely chastised by Moley and crew: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transp...

Had drink been taken?

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With a bowler tip to the Daily Telegraph

Ugly, ugly, ugly - Part II

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Via Twitter @PowerHaul : Video footage of the first two PowerHaul locomotives being unveiled With a bowler tip to @RailwayGazette

DafT in denial - again

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Telegrammed by the Archer Eye readers might be interested in the following DRES lecture on the Management of Rail Projects. The lecture will...

That Gordon Brown transcript

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The Fact Compiler is no fan of the OESI. However, he feels very uncomfortable about the way that certain media is handling the continuing re...

First for moving the deckchairs

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As Eye revealed yesterday Jim Morgan is to leave First Group. Mary Grant will cover the MD role at FuCC until a permanent (ie longer than s...

Pudsey overlooked in great East Coast giveaway - Shocker

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Telegrammed by Globetrotter With apologies to the BBC, but isn’t his Lordship out by a week in his timing? Surely it’s next Friday night (No...

Mutley moment at the DfT

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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Oak leaves have been added to Lord Adonis' Орден Ленина in recognition of another heroic ...
Monday, 9 November 2009

FuCC news

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***So who is to be the new MD of First Capital Connect?***

ATOC - adrift from reality

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Good news from ATOC! Whilst their TOC members plead poverty it appears that the trade forum lives in a parallel universe where their supplie...

Shabby Eurostar marks 15th Anniversary

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This from Marketing ... Eurostar launches campaign to mark 15th anniversary Eye recommends that Eurostar marks the anniversary by cleaning, ...

Glasgow will lose East Coast Main Line services!

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Much excitement in the media this weekend over suggestions that Glasgow will come off the East Coast franchise map. The story prompted a str...

Lookalike - Railair

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With a bowler tip to Inspector Blakey.
Friday, 6 November 2009

The Hammers... and tongs

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This from Reuters ... Instead of the usual messages about delays, passengers at West Ham station in east London heard a couple's love-ma...

Poppy appeal - play your part

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Of your charity please consider doing the following... Text the word POPPY to 70222 - to make a donation to The Royal British Legion. (Text...

Transport Select Committe - next evidence session

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Priorities for investment in the railways - 11 Nov 09 (3) EVIDENCE SESSION On Wednesday 11 November 2009 at 3.45pm in Committee Room 8, Pala...

Signal sighting problems explained

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UPDATE: Eye is grateful to a Mr Saltaire for this novel solution... WTF?
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