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Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Pointless signs - East Coast on-train WiFi

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With a bowler tip to @johnpopham , via Twitter.

Lookalike - Black Adder Rail

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Villiers vignettes... apology accepted

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Regular readers may recollect that Eye took the Saviour of the Jammy Dodger to task on Monday 12th July for misleading the House about roll...

30% dissatisfied with rail ticket purchasing

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Telegrammed by Our Man at 222 Marylebone Road Clearly the train operators are living in a parallel universe when an SWT press release can gl...

Tomorrow's NR annual meeting - a swan song?

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Tomorrow is Network Rail's annual meeting where the company's Members will fail to hold it to account. Eye offers the following dire...
Monday, 19 July 2010

Who should replace Coucher - one for the Ladies?

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Network Rail has done much to encourage the role of ladies in the industry, d espite suggestions to the contrary (see Private Eye passim ). ...

Colonel Michael Cobb RIP

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Sad news indeed. This from the Daily Telegraph ... Colonel Michael Cobb, who has died aged 93, was a regular Army officer who in retir...

Train Police Warn on Shopping-trolleys

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Eye salutes our brave Boys in Blue! This piece of super sleuthing from the British Transport Police website : POLICE APPEAL AFTER TRAIN STRI...

Railway Garden Competition - Bletchley

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Welcome to Bletchley - the winner of this week's "Can't be Arzed Award". A veritable celebration of wilful neglect. Now if...

The advert for the NR CEO job has appeared...

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This from Jumbo... In spite of his endorsement by Eye readers, General Stan McChrystal is unlikely to take the job when he reads the job app...
Sunday, 18 July 2010

ORR - qui custodiet ipsos custodes?

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Telegrammed by Bulldog Drummond The Sunday Times today features Anna 'Pollyanna' Walker as its page 5 girl. Perhaps not a surprise t...

Railway Garden Competition - Bolton

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Pointless signs - Conway Park

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With a bowler tip to D0260... And in close up... Indeed!

Pointless signs - Cadogan Tate

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With a bowler tip to Turbostar ... Cadogan Tate - "Everything handled with care" Indeed not.

Over 90 MPs sign EDM in support of railway

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Eye has stumbled across the following Early Day Motion in support of continued capital investment in the railway. ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF RAIL T...

Guardian Angels - 1C84

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This from Lock and Load... 1C84 1306 PAD - PNZ hit a tree in the Woodborough area on Saturday 10/07. Suspected cause of the tree on the line...

The IEP is dead - long live Mercury

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Telegrammed by Leo Pink Full marks for timing to Industrial Stylists Priestmangoode. The whizzy design house obviously had some spare time o...

Pointless signs - Gloucester Station footbridge

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Saturday, 17 July 2010

Villiers makes lasting contribution to Crossrail

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More good news from Marsham Street. Civil Servants have finally found a use for Jammy Dodgers saviour Theresa Villiers. And once Theresa is ...

Lookalike - Leading Edge Technology

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UPDATE: This from Steve Strong... If only the 172's could be fixed by the application of a £25 elastic band...
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