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Thursday, 26 November 2009

4th Friday Shocker: Nemesis meets its err... nemesis

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As any fule kno the railway industry is leakier than a vacuum brake. So it came as no surprise when Eye received the following cyptic messag...

Freightliner Ugly Sisters - What not to wear

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UPDATE: This from The Water Baby... Enough slating of the PowerHauls please! Surely we live in a society already spoilt enough by pressure t...

Mediaballs - Beeb taking DafT line on 'early termination'

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This just in from Brian Ayre (the low cost railway pundit)... Will somebody please explain to the BBC that ending the c2c franchise on the d...

This for Lord Mandy of Unelected and Freebie

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With a bowler tip to Guido

Daft dances on NatEx grave and ignores FuCC

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Whilst Lord Adonis is busy tidying up lose ends at National Express, the piss-poor performance over at FuCC continues. This from Bacon Butty...

Noble Lord cuts off nose to spite face?

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Telegrammed by Ithuriel According to Lord Adonis: In determining the future of the C2C and NXEA franchises, my overriding concern has been ...

Northern plays its part in reconnecting Workington

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Network Rail played a blinder in providing flood stricken town Workington with a temporary new station to help reconnect the two halves of t...

Thameslink 4000 - fleet update - doomed

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Alstom may be counting its blessings, now that it is out of the running for the new Thameslink fleet. This response from Moley to a question...

NatEx counts its blessings as East Anglia franchise ends 'early'.

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Much excitement from the Chatterati over the 'news' that National Express is to lose its remaining rail franchises. This, for instan...
Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Yoghurt Rail goes multimodal?

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First there was Yoghurt Rail ... Now there's Yoghurt Air ! Coming to an aerodrome near you soon.

Bluebell asks for Eye's help!

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Eye understands that there is some form of competition on the Devil's Lantern tonight. Apparently it has the potential to help the Blueb...

Tories can't take support of the railways for granted

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This from railway peer Lord Bradshaw in yesterday's debate on the Queen's speech ... I should say to the noble Baroness, Lady Wilco...

IEP - Money down the drain

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Telegrammed by Ithuriel According to this written answer from Chris Mole MP on March 24 From 2005 to October 2009, the Department for Transp...

Mystic Griffiths improves RAIB's performance

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This from William Dargan... After years of playing catchup it now appears that the Rail Accident and Investigation Branch are able to invest...
Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Virgin's Social Media guru quits!

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Twitter is abuzz with the news that Richard Baker, Virgin's social media guru, has quit. Richard made the shock announcement via Twitter...

Easyjet gets it oh so very wrong!

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This from the Gruaniad ... The budget airline EasyJet has been forced to withdraw almost 300,000 copies of its in-flight magazine because of...

Arriva Trains Wales premier service on film

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Nice bit of video - but what an extraordinary piece of demode music... With a bowler tip to @andylaird25 via Twitter UPDATE: This from PZT ...

No Cross Default - Official... almost

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Nothing yet on the DfT website but according to the RMT ... The government have also failed to trigger the cross-default clauses on National...

Daft funds industrial action on the railways!

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An interesting Parliamentary Question from Blaydon MP David Anderson ... To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport pursuant to ...

IEP - 12,000 jobs missing

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This from then Secretary of State for Transport, Geoff Hoon , in February this year: " This announcement demonstrates that this Governm...
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