Tuesday, 12 January 2010
50% gritting cuts signal opportunity for the railways
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According to the Downing Street spokesman in the Lobby today: Councils have been told by Transport Secretary Lord Adonis to cut salt-spreadi...
NR appoints new Non-Execs
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This just in from Network Rail... Network Rail announces today enhancement of its board with the appointment of two new non-executive direct...
Monday, 11 January 2010
Weardale and East Lancs receive Golden Eyeballs
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Eye is delighted to announce the award of Golden Eyeballs to the following: The Weardale Railway and The East Lancashire Railway Both railwa...
DB retains interest in doomed Eurostar
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This from Bloomburg ... “Our goal is to go with the ICE to London, but only if we make money in the medium term, otherwise we’re not going t...
First for pisspoor Thameslink performance
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From the Velopodist Does Railway Eye have any idea why so many FCC trains failed all of a sudden today? The TOC is running a very restricted...
Waterloo to be moved 50 miles north - Shocker
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Good news for the worthy burghers of Milton Keynes! Evidently the town's 1980s built railway station just isn't smart enough for t...
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...
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