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Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Birchwood bow introduced for lanky pax

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First there was the Harrington Hump. Now Eye brings you the Birchwood Bow. No doubt designed this way to cater for the taller passenger?

Pointless signs - Flixton

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With a bowler tip to D0260

Pointless signs - Stourbridge Town

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This from KingBBoogaloo... Only one platform with one Pans People Mover serving one destination... And still it gets three pages!

Virgin Trains - what's in a name

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This from Tony Miles... Virgin has its Pendolinos. It has its Mk3 "lookalike set" dubbed the Pretendolino. Now it has its short-Pe...

Someone has bought Rail Express - Shocker

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This from Billy Connections... No - not just a single copy - the whole thing!! Lincolnshire-based specialist magazine publishers Mortons Med...

Transport Select Committee - Chaired by Labour?

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Conservative blog The Blue Nation is suggesting that Labour will retain the chairmanship of the Transport Select Committee. So will we see ...

NR timetabling - a tale of woe

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Evidently the introduction of Network Rail's much vaunted Integrated Train Planning System has not gone well. A stinging letter to Messr...

How Whitehall works...

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This from Sir Humphrey Beeching... My esteemed former colleagues in Marsham Street tell me that their new masters, having got used to their ...

Transport Select Committee news

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MPs are to vote for the membership of select committees. The secret ballot of the whole house will replace the previous system of appointmen...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Industry to bid Adonis farewell

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Eye hears that ATOC members are planning a dinner to say a formal farewell to Lord Adonis. And quite right too! After all the Noble Lord was...

Pointless signs - Lichfield Trent Valley

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With a bowler tip to Class 9 Swinger... Indeed!

Pointless signs - Severn Tunnel Junction

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Witha bowler tip to Class 9 Swinger... Yes. It has been left unlocked...

Pointless signs - Waterloo

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This from Iain H... This taken at Waterloo last Thursday. So were there Major Engineering Works on Saturday or not?
Monday, 24 May 2010

Where the axe will fall...

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This with a bowler tip to Sir Herbert Beeching... Eye's readers may be interested in the following savings agreed by my colleagues... A ...

Desperate Times - Milton Keynes

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Desperate times require desperate measures. So Eye salutes London Midland! This money making sign greeted queues of punters desperate to ren...
Friday, 21 May 2010

A few more words on Hammond - the other one

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Regular readers will recollect that former Shadow Transport Minister Stephen Hammond MP was not appointed to the new coalition government Tr...

Gibb suffers identity crisis - Shocker

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Thursday, 20 May 2010

Thin Controller no more?

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***Twitter sources suggesting Lord Adonis will not stand for Shadow Cabinet*** More to follow... UPDATE: The Master texts... Adonis has just...

Secretary of State shows deep railway knowledge

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This just in from the Wickerman... Just been to the opening of Kings Cross' new platform, which was attended by our new Transport Secret...

Wither Flying Scotsman?

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This from Driver Bill Hoole... Will new Transport Secretary Phil 'Hard Man' Hammond perpetuate his predecessor's Vanity Project...
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