Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Pointless signs - Epping station car park
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Beardie discovers the Strategic Reserve - Official
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This from Railnews ... Virgin Trains is planning to double its service between Glasgow and London after British Airways cabin crew said they...
So farewell Heidi Mottram!
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This from the Times ... Northumbrian Water Group has hired one of the rail industry’s leading lights as its new chief executive. Heidi Mott...
The Fat Controller brings out the SLC2 big guns!
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Regular Eye readers will recollect that the proposed new timetable for the East Coast route has run into a spot of bother. Known as SLC2 it ...
RT: BBC Caves in to Carter Ruck Threats Over Trafigura Film
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Reposted from Ian Dale's blog... Carter-Ruck have succeeded in persuading the BBC to remove all reference to the Trafigura story from i...
Spot the difference - BRB(R) land disposal
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Using your skill and judgement can you spot the difference between the following two events which occurred today: 1. Railway land for possib...
Adonis comes clean on 'Autumn' Rolling Stock Plan
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This from Lord Adonis yesterday ... In July I undertook to review the Department’s rolling stock plan in the light of the electrification an...
Pointless signs - Taunton station car park
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Lost and found #2
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This just in from the Archdeacon... This is what happens when the engine mountings of your (German built) DMU fail when travelling at sp...
Monday, 14 December 2009
Eye welcomes Pierre Attendu
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Bombardier UK customers might find the below of interest. Always worth knowing who is on the up. UPDATE: This from Anagrammaticus... Pierre ...
Gordon Brown breaks Javelin embargo
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Oh dear. It looks like the PM is off message. This from the Number 10 website : Gordon Brown called the Javelin train’s first weekday journe...
Bloke with 'tash is to be new EU transport commissar
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Good news from the European Union ! A bloke with a 'tash has been nominated for the role of Transport Commissar in Manuel Barroso's ...
Peace breaks out between NatEx and DafT
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Happy news for beleaguered National Express share holders. Today there will be a veritable love in between the doomed company and the Depart...
DafT invests in flower power
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Telegrammed by Patience Strong More profligacy from the men at the ministry... Written Answers — Transport: Departmental Plants (10 Dec 200...
Friday, 11 December 2009
How the media works...
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From... Bitterwallet to Railway Eye to Her Majesty's Daily Telegraph to The Drudge Report 'Nuff said!
Thursday, 10 December 2009
LU leads way in motivating staff to communicate
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This from bitterwallet with a bowler tip to Is 1A03 out of Chester yet, Bert The platform announcer at Farringdon refused to stop talking f...
Darling announces 200 earlier vehicles - again!
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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Exciting news from the Chancellor's Pre Budget Report ... Introducing a green stimulus – e...
Lord Adonis flogs off Kings Lynn station car park
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Not many outside the industry know that the British Railways Board still exists, albeit in a residuary capacity. Known, surprisingly enough,...
Lord Berkeley bigs up Hammond at RFG lunch
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Is ace railfreight lobbyist and Labour peer, Lord Berkeley, mellowing with age? Despite harbouring republican sympathies Lord B had secured ...
Eye suggests how to improve value from the railway
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Exciting news from the Department for Transport! DafT is undertaking a study into: Improving value for money from the railway . According to...
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