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Friday, 6 August 2010

Railway Garden Competition - Castleford

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This from the Wicked Weaver... Might Eye advise its readers of a bonus for those planning a trip on the "Scarborough Express" late...

Wolmar airbrushed from Manchester - Shocker

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Oh how the mighty have fallen! The Fact Compiler has received this plaintive email from Wolmar: Please can you put this on your website: Eng...

IEP resurrected - Shocker

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Telegrammed by Sir Humphrey Beeching Although retired I still receive all the Departmental bumpf, including updated pages for the DfT offic...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010

West Coast Woe - Three degrees of separation

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Telegrammed by Our International Correspondent MVA – a UK based consultancy jointly owned by RATP and SNCF – recently completed a report for...

Pointless signs - Thetford

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This from a Mr Tony Miles... Here at Thetford there is a similar sign each side of the footbridge where, I believe, there once was a foot cr...

Cuneo and the mouse that roared...

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Telegrammed by The Master According to the Terence Cuneo Memorial Trust : When Terence Cuneo died in 1996, there were many of his friends wh...

Railway Garden Competition - Lewes

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ODA unveils transport investment - World laughs

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Good news for hard pressed Londoners! To date most of the transport news about the Olympics has been entirely negative - what with the exc...

Railtrack - a gift that keeps on giving

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Telegrammed by Our Man at 222 Marylebone Road Browsing through the uncorrected note of Philip Hammod's evidence to the Transport Select ...

Pointless signs - One for the hangers and floggers

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This from Centro... Loxdale Metro stop has had a make over with a difference. Over the past month and a half offenders made amends for th...

Gold plated stations - Chesterfield

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This from the Wicked Weaver... I wonder if I might share with Eye readers these photographs of the new platform 3 at Chesterfield station. O...

Pointless signs - Rail replacement bus stops

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Darwin Award - Puffer-nutters yet again

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This from Eye's friends over at Steam Railway magazine... I thought Eye readers might be interested in this picture taken from a legal ...
Friday, 30 July 2010

Railway Garden Competition - Entry withdrawn

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Shocking news from Retford! Regular Eye readers will recollect this image of Retford in all its arborial glory taken in May of this year: I...

Value for Money - tips and tricks

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Telegrammed by Leo Pink This for our DfT readers... Although it's £40 million too late it might prevent further excesses.
Thursday, 29 July 2010

Lookalike - DB's international aspirations

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This from Tommy Atkins... According to the Railway Gazette nationalised Deutsche Bahn plans to run an ICE3 to Britain this year. The arti...

The Big Society explained...

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So. Ministers have today written to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations asking for their ideas on how to reduce the def...
Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Darwin Award - Puffer-nutters... again!

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This from Matt's Trainpics site , with a bowler tip to @stephenrees , via Twitter... According to Matt " At Vigo bridge there were...

ATOCballs - adding insult to injury!

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This from Darby and Joan... Senior Railcard holders have just received this e-mail: Dear Darby We’re offering you the chance to win £100 wor...

New rolling stock strategy explained

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UPDATE: This from Bill Hoole... Why do drivers need a large plaque in the cab telling them the sort of train they are driving? So long as y...
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