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Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Railway Garden Competition - Also Abroad

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This from Storm Force... This taken on a recent trip at Sveti Rok ob Sotli in Slovenia. The train is stopped in the station!

Railway Garden Competition - Abroad

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This from Tb... This view of Alstetten in Zurich just shows how poor the Swiss railways are compared to Britain. Note that there is no gard...

Pointless signs - A60 stock

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With a bowler tip to Oily Spanner... A bit worrying that this obvious piece of information has to be displayed in the driving cab of Undergr...

Pointless signs - Smethwick Rolfe Street

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This from D0260... How's this for a cracker, seen last week at Smethwick Rolfe Street station between Wolverhampton and Birmingham on th...
Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Lookalike: Grand Central's Marilyn?

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This from The Master... It appears that the soi disant 'veteran' observer was in Yorkshire this weekend running a straw-race. Rath...

Selling off NR - Cui bono?

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Telegrammed by Bulldog Drummond Interesting that two very similar stories (Alistair Osborne in Friday's Daily Telegraph and Tom Winsor ...

Pointless signs - Tamworth

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Monday, 5 July 2010

Ding dong the train is dead!

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***Foster review of IEP expected 07:00 Tuesday morning*** More tomorrow... UPDATE: This from Reuters ... A decision on whether to proceed w...

Pointless Garden Competition - Conflation edition

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This from Cheers Joe... I notice that the themes of your blog have met head on at Limehouse. I do not know whether that station also has poi...

Pointless signs - A 2002 vision of the future

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LUL - In the Brown stuff...

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Telegrammed by Spinning Charles Yerkes The pink ‘un had an interview on Friday with London Underground MD Mike Brown . Brown, recently resto...

Pointless signs - the audio version

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This from a Mr Malins... There are as many, probably a lot more, pointless announcements as there are pointless signs. At Bridgend there is ...

Back to the future - NR adopts double arrow

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It appears that Network Rail's Midlands Region can read the runes! The arrows of indecision clearly looks a safer bet than doomed NR...

First Network Rail?

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The Independent on Sunday will have caused many a ruined breakfast with its list of industry figures keen to take on Iain Coucher's job...

Pointless signs - York

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Friday, 2 July 2010

Stockade station - Birmingham International

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This from D0260... Further to Eye's piece on the Coucher Memorial Fences at Stockport , w elcome to Birmingham International, or should ...

Bob Crow - just a pussy cat

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This from the Tax Payers Alliance ... With Trade Union Leaders flexing their muscles with strike threats and warnings about impending public...

An apology to our German readers

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The Fact Compiler has been taken to task for stereotyping our Teutonic friends in the previous post . Clearly in the new Europe this can not...

Railway Garden Competition - Wildenrath

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Railway Gardens German Style - efficiently defoliated! No doubt the individual responsible for the visible fronds is currently contemplating...
Thursday, 1 July 2010

Rich man declines bonus - Shocker

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This from the Gruaniad ... Peter Hendy, TfL's most senior official as London transport commissioner, has declined a bonus of £132,409 in...
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