Thursday, 1 April 2010
BREAKING NEWS: RMT Strike
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Twitter sources reporting Network Rail gets court injunction to prevent RMT strike More to follow... UPDATE: This from Network Rail... Netwo...
March visitors
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In March Railway Eye received 32,001 visits from 8,552 unique visitors . According to Google Analytics you viewed 43,223 splenetic utteran...
ATOC claims 99% of railway spend is waste!
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This from the Archer... Further to Eye's earlier piece on RAIL's expose of the doomed nature of railway financing, did anyone else h...
Strikeballs - The Grauniad
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Reports of the demise of National Express East Coast appear somewhat exaggerated... Unless this is what passes for All Fools' Day humour...
Maundy Thursday at St Pancras
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Evidently railway padre and St Pancras station chaplain, the Rev Jonathan Barker, takes Dominical Injunctions seriously. Although Eye is str...
Industry bust by 2020? Eye told you so!
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Telegrammed by Bulldog Drummond RAIL ( issue 640 ) breathlessly reports a shock meeting on 14 March where Dr Mike Mitchell told railway chie...
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Lookalike: The future is...
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First for not putting its head above the parapet
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So the government's exciting plans for franchising have gone down like the proverbial turd in a punchbowl amongst ATOC members. This fro...
FuCC up?
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This from Storm Force... Our friends at FuCC have a major problem. North of London: up is south; while south of London, up is North. North o...
Lord Adonis in Holy Week on Guided Busways
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This from the Upper House on the 29th March ... Lord Berkeley (Labour) To ask Her Majesty's Government what financial contribution they ...
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
NR gets all legal on RMT's Ar$e!
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Good news for My Learned Friends... This from Network Rail... Earlier this afternoon we served papers on the RMT to see them in court tomor...
"Will this waste of our money never stop?" - Telegraph
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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Here is Philip Johnston writing in today's Torygraph : All the familiar ingredients are t...
Eye prompts questions in the House
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It's amazing what you can find on Hansard. Regular readers may recollect that Eye discovered two videos on YouTube , which were produced...
Monday, 29 March 2010
Open Access without ORR approval - way to go!
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This just in from the Commuter... At the end of last year Eye reported on the launch of Britain's first co-operative train company . Lik...
DafT says...
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Via Twitter ... Better access for disabled passengers due at 42 stations thanks to Government funding. A grateful people indeed give thanks ...
New competition to select IEP successor - Shocker
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This just in, unbelievably, from the late Louella Parsons... Darlings, I've been schmoozing with the dishy Lord Andrew. No, not Lloyd We...
Pointless signs - Bishop Auckland taxi rank
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Perhaps the instruction ' Press Here ' will summon one?
Lookalike - Holiday edition
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The Great Detractor?
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Telegrammed by Bulldog Drummond Tom 'pile of bile' Winsor ranted away in The Times on Friday that Buy-us is responsible for the thr...
Jarvis old joke corner
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Telegrammed by Bulldog Drummond So farewell then Paris Moayedi. A very exotic specimen in the dull as ditchwater-alongside-the-cess world of...
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