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Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Aslef solves the need for a Rail Review

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This from Keith Norman of Aslef ... ‘There’s a simple solution to keeping down costs,’ Keith says. ‘Stop money pouring out of our industry i...

Thameslink 4000 news

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Eye hears that technical specialists working on Thameslink are being temporarily stood down. Although the possible remobilisation in Autumn ...

Exciting DfT announcement tomorrow

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Eye understands that there is an "item" on the grid tomorrow for the Department for Transport. What could this exciting announceme...

APPRG elects new officers for a new Parliament

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Last night the All Party Parliamentary Rail Group (APPRG) held its annual general meeting. It being a new Parliament there was an election o...

Exciting aviation committee formed to drink tea

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Exciting news from Petrol-head Hammond ! A drive to reduce long queues and the number of delayed flights was announced today as Transport Se...

Foster report on IEP set to music - Shocker

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Telegrammed by our Cultural Correspondent Cultural icons abounded in Marsham Street last evening as Lord Andrew Lloyd Weber's Really Use...

Overground aural overload

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This with a bowler tip to the Going Underground Blog ... Perhaps the Camclegg twins can add over use of on-train announcements to the Great ...

'I Spy' - lifting the lid on railways

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This from Sheepbridge... 'I-Spy' books have apparently returned to our bookshelves (now sponsored by Michelin ) and seem to be offer...
Monday, 14 June 2010

Railway Garden Competition - Bournemouth

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With a bowler tip to @swlines via @twitpic

Railway industry signs away destiny - again!

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Bulldog Drummond gets to read Sir Roy McNulty's Scoping Study... The DfT and ORR issued the McNulty Value for Money Report Scoping Stud...

DfT Press Office - power-users one and all

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Good to see that the DfT press office have mastered this worldweb-interwide thingy. This courtesy of the Government's news website : Ope...

Railway Garden Competition - Disqualified

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This is all wrong! Clearly Orpington is not imbued with the spirit of the age. Where is the wilful neglect and can't be arsed attitude? ...

Railway Garden Competition - Lewisham

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Lewisham, Thursday 10th June. North end of platform 2. With a bowler tip to Portugoose Al.

The crumbling edge of quality - WCML

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This from the 'Chartered Surveyor'... Here is Moore south of Warrington. Clearly maintaining the 'assets' has become a low p...

Railway Garden Competition - Peterborough

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Blowing the whistle again...

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Telegrammed by our International Correspondent Much excitement in yesterday's Mail on Sunday that the man overseeing MP's expenses ...

Poetry Corner - Lines on First Group changes

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This just in from Clarence Spad, Life President of the Young Railway Poets Society... LINES WRITTEN ON THE CHANGES AT FIRST GROUP ANNOUNCED ...
Friday, 11 June 2010

Railway Garden Competition - Hull Paragon

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Stoats return!

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This for those who mourn the demise of naughty website stoat face... Stoat!!!!!!!!!!!!

Railway Garden Competition - Waterloo International

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This from the Ninja... It looks like the disused platforms at Waterloo International are going to get a make-over from the Eden Project in o...
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