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Sunday, 28 March 2010

First class ban on Generals is a bit rich!

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Exciting news from the Dear Leader. According to the Sunday Times the OESI has decided that senior military officers must now slum it in St...
Thursday, 25 March 2010

RMT strike dates

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Rail workers to strike for four days from April 6, the day after Easter, RMT leader Bob Crow has announced With a bowler tip to @SkyNewsBre...

Waterloo International sees early return to use

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Splendid news about the disused Waterloo International station which is currently costing taxpayers £2m a year. Apparently it is to return t...

Patricia Hewitt to Eurotunnel?

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Transportb had this story yesterday at 08:58 and circulated it via Twitter . Now Guido has woken up: In a staggering move the board of Euro...

So farewell Jarvis

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This from the Evening Standard ... Jarvis, the rail contractor which admitted liability for the fatal 2002 Potters Bar Rail crash and is cha...
Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Sleepers to return to Marylebone - Shocker

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Eye's favourite national newspaper hack is not a happy bunny! Michael Williams, former Deputy Editor of the Independent on Sunday and re...

Railway press - the gloves are off!

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It's obviously getting tough out there for those selling ad space in the railway press. This from the new ad sales team at Rail Amateur....

The battle for Arriva - Eye backs a winner!

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This just in from Ol' Rosbiff - flexing his bowstring finger (and showing that he still has one). In an attempt to revisit their takeove...

DfT swings the Axe - Official

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This from the DfT , explaining where the efficiency savings announced in today's budget will come from: Today the Department for Transpo...

NR swings the axe - Official

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Deep mourning today amongst Railway Garden fans! In 2008 and 2009 Eye celebrated NR's masterful vegetation management in the Ambergate...

Pointless Hats - exciting new feature!

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With a bowler tip to Chianothus Virginicus... Although the makeover of St Paul's looks most splendid...

UK remains poor man of Europe

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This from our man at 222 Marylebone Road Compare and contrast, as they say. Northern and EMT get 16 vintage DMU vehicles between them and t...

NR fesses up on Blackfriars - Shocker

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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Here's the Note to Editors in the Network Rail press release on the visit by the PM and t...

Alstom directors arrested

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This from the BBC ... Three directors of French transport and infrastructure group Alstom have been arrested in a UK corruption probe, the S...

More Buy-us claims - Shocker

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Telegrammed by Leo Pink In next week's Sunday Tymes - more Buy-us revelations "I told Adonis IEP had to die" Also revealed b...

Wit and wisdom from The Thin Controller

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This from the Upper House on the 18th March ... Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan (Labour) I thank my noble friend for that reply and congratu...

Bid for a Class 57 cabride

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This just in from Tony Miles... My good friend Charlie Hulme who runs the North Wales Coast website - one of the oldest and the best - has ...
Tuesday, 23 March 2010

TOCland issues clarion call in The Thunderer

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Telegrammed by Bulldog Drummond With all the excitement of yesterday's 'Lobbygate' an extraordinarily wooden and otiose letter i...
Monday, 22 March 2010

Sadiq says...

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Via Twitter ... Just announced £235m investment for UK's 1st modern trolley bus scheme. Fantastic news for Leeds, especially on top of H...

Adonis and Buy-us - the transcript

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No doubt readers have seen the extraordinary piece about Stephen Buy-us in yesterday's Sunday Times ? £5,000 per day and boy, did Nation...
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