Thursday, 15 July 2010
First for book retailing
›
This from the Major... "Perhaps you would like a copy of my Lovely Book ma'am, there's quite a pile of them over here."
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
George Behrend RIP
›
This from Andy Roden... George Behrend, the author of that seminal book on the Great Western Railway, Gone With Regret and many other fasci...
Drummond deserts Eye - Shocker
›
This from Clarence Spad... LINES WRITTEN ON SEEING BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S ARTICLE IN RAIL So Bulldog Drummond DSO MC You were a hero of the ...
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Transport Select Committee news
›
The members of the Committee were appointed on 12 July 2010 Member Party Constituency Louise Ellman MP (Chair) Labour Co-op Liver...
Bag a bottle of Bolly with Railway Eye!
›
Man on the Slow Train offers Eye readers a bottle of Bollinger! Tis the season when the branch lines and rail byways of our land should be o...
Monday, 12 July 2010
Railway Garden Competition - Solihull
›
With a bowler tip to @BorisWatch , via Twitter
Villiers vignettes....
›
An occasional series celebrating the relationship of the Minister of State for Transport with her Department... This answer given by Theresa...
Stockade station - HMP Walton
›
This from a Mr Mallins... Welcome to Walton. The closing of the station to facilitate ticket barriers, on both sides in this case, is an...
Railway Garden Competition - Basingstoke
›
This from the Ninja... Day of the Triffids recreated in the old bay at Basingstoke. Bearing in mind the void into which the unaware might dr...
Pointless signs - Willesden Junction
›
With added spelling mistaked... With a bowler tip to a Mr Cox
Friday, 9 July 2010
TSSA backs Reichsbahnmarschall Abbot
›
At last some good news for Labour leadership candidate Diane Abbot Abbot has been trailing behind in the leadership race but all this looks ...
South West Trains expands onto West Coast?
›
This from Driver Potter ... I refer to the July 2010 edition of Modern Railways (Page 22 if you're interested) wherein is made mention o...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Railway Garden Competition - Also Abroad
›
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
›
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
›
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
›
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?
›
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?
›
Telegrammed by Bulldog Drummond Interesting that two very similar stories (Alistair Osborne in Friday's Daily Telegraph and Tom Winsor ...
Pointless signs - Tamworth
›
Monday, 5 July 2010
Ding dong the train is dead!
›
***Foster review of IEP expected 07:00 Tuesday morning*** More tomorrow... UPDATE: This from Reuters ... A decision on whether to proceed w...
‹
›
Home
View web version