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Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Hybridballs

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Telegrammed by Our Independent Expert Extra traffic from air disruption seems to have gone to Virgin's corporate head. Weary standard c...

Frontpage of the Standard....

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It was the railway wot won it! Don't you worry Andrew - after this week's bumper loadings there'll be jobs aplenty if you want t...

Railway prepares for The Great Return

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This from Network Rail ... Network Rail will be keeping the rail lines serving London's airports open around the clock tonight to help g...

Aviations 'Railtrack moment'

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This from Captain Oveur... Eye readers may care to compare and contrast the following. Hatfield, England October 2000 : Cracked rail due to...

Eurotunnel - lost in translation

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Apparently Deutsche Bahn is hoping to operate through the Chunnel in time for the Olympics. According to Reuters : Eurotunnel chief Jacques ...

Lookalike - Sheffield Dalek

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With a bowler tip to TheBufferStops.fotopic.net and @Maggie_Thatcher , via Twitter
Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Beware fake Virgin staff - Shocker

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Merseyside police have warned rail passengers to watch out for a very large group of gentleman who appear to be impersonating Virgin train c...

Election levity - but a serious point

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With a bowler tip to Guido ... A nice bit of Labour Party self deprecation from Ali Campbell towards the end...

Train Lord's dark plans for Sheffield

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Be careful what you wish for. Regular readers will recollect that The Thin Controller surrendered Sheffield in the Battle of the Barriers...

Eversholt sale update

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This from Reuters ... AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - CVC Capital Partners and a consortium of Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, 3i Infrastructure and St...
Monday, 19 April 2010

Full services to all airports - by rail

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Whilst the industry boasts about strengthening services to cater for increased demand it appears that dedicated airport links are running ne...

Monster Raving Loony - Policy achieved!

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Telegrammed by Bulldog Drummond Disappointed to see that the Monster Raving Loony Party (MLRP) has no manifesto commitments for rail in this...

Rail privatisation doomed - Official

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BBC reporting that state owned DB is close to signing a £1.6bn deal for Arriva . Told you privatisation would never wo rk .

2010 Railway Garden Competition

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Evidently Sheffield is determined to win this year's competition. Regular readers may recollect that despite the January snow the EMT st...

ASLEF signs up to Twitter

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@thefactcompiler welcomes @ASLEFunion to twitter! With a bowler tip to @Andylaird25 Turn on, tune in, but do it in a 140 characters... UPD...

NR board appointment fires up reformers zeal

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Yesterday's Independent on Sunday reported that there is disquiet amongst NR members about the proposed appointment of Janis Kong to th...

Ashballs - Noble Lord rewrites diagrams and TTs

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Much hilarity in Rosco land. As any fule kno Virgin has invested billions in new trains (omitting to mention of course that it was the Rosco...
Friday, 16 April 2010

ATOC unsure who the party leaders are - Official

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This from the Raver.... Good to see ATOC has its fingers well and truly on the political pulse! For the politically illiterate, or those who...

Southern in pornography shocker

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This from Sussex Driver... Is there something that I'm missing on Railway Eye? Southern certainly seem to think so... The Fact Compile...

Election clock ticking for 1,300 new vehicles

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Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Finger out Adonis! Only 19 days in which to place orders for the outstanding 757 additional ve...
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