Monday, 31 May 2010
King's Place expects a visitor...
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This from Bulldog Drummond... Apparently Sir Alan Budd from the Office of Budget Responsibility is very keen to pay a visit to Network Rail...
A busy weekend for NR's Board...
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This just in from the ghost of Sir Peter Parker ... Being able to pass through doors I thought it worthwhile visiting this weekend's me...
Friday, 28 May 2010
Thameslink fleet - caped or not?
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Much furious spinning yesterday following the suggestion on Radio 4's You and Yours that the new Thameslink fleet might already have suc...
Wolmar love bombs Petrol-head Hammond
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Evidently the new Transport Secretary's interview in yesterday's Standard has done nothing to reassure Wolmar. So enervated was the...
Wurzels enter train building market
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This just in from Adge Cutler... It is good to see that the strong representation of West Country folk in the English community around Zarag...
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Witch report on fares disowned by Doe!
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This just in from fares expert Barry Doe, following the 'Which?' report on fares today... I understand 'Which?' has just pro...
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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This from the Ministry of Silly Walks... Operational Note - HSE prosecutes Health Protection Agency The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is...
Good news for Standard Class passengers!
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This just in from Jumbo... With politicians together with Sir Humphrey and his cohorts being reduced to joining lesser mortals travelling s...
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...
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