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Friday, 8 January 2010

Latest news from the Eurostar broom cupboard!

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It's Nick Mercer this time, with a bowler tip to the Railway Gazette via Twitter... A reminder to PR's everywhere. Put them in a Hi...

Harris on Hilton on a train

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Uber-blogger Tom Harris MP on Tory Director of Strategy, Steve Hilton, upsetting train staff: The real story behind the Channel 4 News reve...

Chris Bryant MP on Eurostar

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Chris Bryant MP has posted the following on twitter ... I am rapidly developing a very severe hatred of Eurostar as we are travelling at abo...
Thursday, 7 January 2010

Railway remains open for business!

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This just in from the soi disant 'veteran' observer... Just thought Eye readers might like to know that as at 11:00 today, and despi...

Angel appoints Rowlands as Chairman - Doomed

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Telegrammed by the Raver So Sir David Rowlands has become Chairman of Angel Trains. What a busy life he leads! How he packs it all in we wil...
Wednesday, 6 January 2010

NR asset failures are TOCs fault - Official

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Exciting news from Network Rail! Apparently the infrastructure owner is trying to blame " ice falling from trains " for infrastruc...

Snow plays havoc with Adonis plans for NatEx!

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Telegrammed by Leo Pink Let's hope that Lord Lenin Adonis is keeping his promise to monitor closely the performance of the remaining fra...

Who killed the Railway Forum?

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So farewell to the Railway Forum which shuffled off this mortal coil on the 1st January 2010. Yes, the grey men have finally done in the inv...
Tuesday, 5 January 2010

RMT plays politics as the snow falls

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Good to see that despite the cold weather the RMT still can't resist jumping on a bandwagon. Especially one that's been derailed. Th...
Monday, 4 January 2010

It's cold Carruthers, damned cold!

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This just in from a Mr Rodgers... I thought that Railway Eye readers would like an exclusive and sneak preview of Network Rail's latest...

Daft expertise dooms US and Nigeria

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Good news for jet setting civil servants and the taxpayer! This written answer given on the 16th December 2009 Lord Bradshaw (Liberal Democr...
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!
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