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Saturday, 2 January 2010

NatEx reinvogorated in the New Year!

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The formerly-doomed National Express is playing hardball, is spinning or has taken Lord Adonis' shilling. This from the BBC ... Rail far...

2009 Railway Eye stat porn

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In 2009 Railway Eye was visited 230,284 times by 53,152 unique visitors. Top 100 corporate readership sources: network rail go-ahe...

Lord of the Jungle for Tory Transport Secretary?

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This extraordinary suggestion from the Grauniad today... The shadow transport minister, Theresa Villiers, lacks clout... So step forward, L...
Thursday, 31 December 2009

Signal shighting - East Midlands Parkway

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This from a Mr Powell... If there are a spate of SPADs around East Midlands Parkway in coming months, this may be why... Note the important ...

Mystic Adonis anticipates High Speed Two report

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Telegrammed by Le Flaneur Do not trust him gentle maiden! According to a DfT press release, embargoed for 01.00 Wednesday 30 December: Tr...

Railway Gongs

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With a bowler tip to a Mr Murray... ORDER OF THE BATH Christopher BOLT Arbiter, London Underground Public Private Partnership Agreements an...
Wednesday, 30 December 2009

Eye welcomes back Adonis - Shocker

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(With a bowler tip to the latest edition of New Transit magazine... )
Thursday, 24 December 2009

Foreign news...

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This just in from the Disciple of the Third Rail... This lesson is brought to us from the American Chapter of Gricers International and is e...

New Year's Honours List - Shocker

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A Royal Warrant for the National Passenger Survey? Or the Order of the Chop for cheeky Passenger Focus!
Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Snow way to run a railway

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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road At around 08.45 yesterday the National Rail website listed no fewer than six entries that said...

Underground musings...

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Telegrammed by Ithuriel With Tube Lines over-time on resignalling and way-over the PPP Arbiter's budgetary allowance can it be before th...

Cranmer identifies the elephant not in the room!

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Wise words from the Tedious Old God-botherer ... Where is Lord Adonis? Indeed.
Monday, 21 December 2009

Agency puffs as Eurostar burns

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This from PR Week ... MD of conversation shop We Are Social, Robin Grant, has declared the Eurostar crisis as ' good news ' for his ...

Aslef craps on Eurostar

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Earth to Aslef, come in Aslef... This surreal bollocks just issued by the brothers ... Further strike action will take place on Eurostar on ...

Brown apologises - Official

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So Richard has gone where Gordon dare not. About time too. According to the Southport Visiter : The high-speed rail company's chief exec...
Friday, 18 December 2009

In between the tinsel, mince pies and frivolity...

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...please spare a thought for those whose Christmas will be less than festive. Help t he Ra ilway Children reach out to a child on our stree...

Hero signalman Bill Taylor recognised

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This from the BBC ... A memorial plaque has been unveiled in Cumbria to honour a railway signalman who prevented a potential disaster 25 yea...

At the forefront of Railway Research

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Telegrammed by Ithuriel Good to see RSSB making good use of its £15 million Research Budget and finding topics British Rail Research overloo...
Thursday, 17 December 2009

Queen FuCCs - Official

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From Her Majesty's Daily Telegraph ... Dontcha love Her! All together now... God save our gracious...

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