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Monday, 23 November 2009

Freightliner to name the Ugly sisters

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***Driver Potter has the full list of names to be applied to Freightliner Cl70s *** UPDATE: This from TonyVeitchUK via Twitter... Tell Pott...

Number crunching - What £10bn buys you

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This from The Vice Marshall ... I have just travelled from Crewe to Euston, arriving 12 minutes late on a non-tilting Pendolino, running at...

RMT has got news for you!

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This will be a real treat! According to the Evening Standard ... The general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union will be a g...

FuCC service shambles overlooked?

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This just in from Bacon Butty... Is the Fact Compiler now in the pay of First Group? Only we saw a lot of interesting snippets about NXEC bu...
Sunday, 22 November 2009

Snowaway found on Virgin train - Shocker

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Spotted Friday... ...with a bowler tip to the Wicked Weaver. UPDATE: This just in from Maks T... Merely wishing to point out your latest ent...
Friday, 20 November 2009

Head of East Coast Main Line on the wireless today

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You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 today promises an interview with " the woman who has taken over the East Coast Main Line ". As Eye is...

A co-operative open access operator?

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This from Rail-news.com ... Go! Co-operative www.go-now.coop , is gathering momentum in its aim to become the UK’s first co-operatively-owne...

Sadiq says...

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Via Twitter ... On 815, St Pancras- Nottingham. Cabinet is meeting there, 2pm. Using time before to continue my Bus tour (once off the train...

Waverail promises the return of the slip-coach?

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Exciting news from Upside-down Land This courtesy of Cocky in the Colonies... I thought you may be amused by this proposal that has been sug...

Nobody elected Eurocrat

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Lady Who-wot appointed to post of High Representative She rose without trace.
Thursday, 19 November 2009

Grand Central - you don't have to be md to work here...

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The Fact Compiler has received a piece of PR puffery from Grand Central. Their PR, the soi disant 'veteran observer', witters... Cha...

Beardie Rail aims to sweep the board

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Telegrammed by the Archer Not content with a top ten hit in Tuesday’s mini pilgrimage, Virgin ticketing staff at Preston station will join c...

Sadiq says...

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Via Twitter ... At Kings Cross about to catch train to Darlington as part of my Bus tour. Please do visit DfT website if you have ideas wher...

Pilgrimage of Grice sets ministerial precedent

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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Exciting news from Labour Party HQ in Victoria Street! Eye understands that following the suc...
Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Aslef gives Lilley a good kicking

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Oh dear! Peter Lilley, the MP for Harpenden, has upset the brothers by criticising FCC ‘ militants taking coordinated action to prevent trai...

St Pancras Oecumenical

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Guido claims Pilgrimage of Pork

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Telegrammed by Lobby Fodder So Guido's not convinced about yesterday's Pilgrimage of Grice, detecting the sulpherous whiff of Porkba...
Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Adonis leaves Marsham Street standing

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Poor old DafT really haven't got their heads round Social Media yet. The following two twitter posts have just emerged from slumbering M...

Hacks set agenda on Pilgrimage of Grice - Official

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The Noble Lord reveals the following on his blog ... I've just been speaking on the train to rail journalists Roger Ford and Phil Haig -...

First class travel for third class education?

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Lord Adonis must be rejoicing that he is no longer in the Department for Education and Skills. The LibDems are claiming that civil servants ...
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