Wednesday, 18 August 2010
WiFi on Arriva CrossCountry coming soon! Not.
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Telegrammed by Wired William Exciting news for Arriva CrossCountry passengers! Regular readers will recollect that Arriva singularly failed ...
The risks of portion working explained
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This from the Daily Mail ... Tourists on a sleeper train from Spain to Italy woke up nearly 200 miles off course - after French railway sign...
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
ConDems face fares conundrum
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July's retail price index (RPI) inflation figure is 4.8%. Train companies are allowed to increase regulated fares, including season tick...
Monday, 16 August 2010
Darwin Award - A step too far
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This from York Control... ECML late running after 1D73 struck photographers step ladder Delays on Down ECML after 1D73 reported striking som...
Head case!
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WTF? Anyone know what box this extraordinary headgear is based on? UPDATE: This from Our International Correspondent... Eye readers wishing ...
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Underground runaway - some thoughts
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Telegrammed by our International Correspondent LUL’s little difficulty with a runaway engineer’s train is now subject to a RAIB investigatio...
Friday, 13 August 2010
Tories and new trains - history repeats itself?
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This from Captain Deltic... May I offer Eye followers the chance to re-live a fabled period in privatised railway history? After Privatisat...
Underground runaway
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This from the BBC ... A driverless train ran for almost four miles on the London Underground on Friday morning. The engineering train, which...
East Coast planning for the future?
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This from a Mr Swift... I am sure the residents of Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes will be interested in the " Planned East Coast Route...
Network Rail gets all sexy!
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This rather exciting corporate video has made it's way onto YouTube, with a bowler tip to Driver Potter... Nice to see NR showing off th...
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Railway Garden Competition - Cambridge Heath
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SWT now wants to Vacuum pack passengers!
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This from the South West Trains website , with a bowler tip to a Mr Poobah... And here in close up: SWT treating customers as suckers etc......
Balfour Beatty and the sin of omission
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Telegrammed by Our International Correspondent Balfour Beatty has just released its half year accounts for 2010 . Lots of profits, and right...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Pointless signs - Stafford
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New uses for old railway stations?
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This from Driver Potter... So first we have Waterloo International blazing a brave trail for stations that don't want to be stations by ...
Reichsbahn anschluss of Arriva approved
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The European Commission has approved Deutsche Bahn's takeover of Arriva . Eye welcomes the renationalisation of Cross Country and Arriva...
Virgin's view of Barbielino and Eastern Promise
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Clearly confusion reigns over today's exciting announcement from Directly Operated Railways about plans to operate 'Barbielinos'...
Hitachi continues to fight for the IEP
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Whilst Tony Mercado (the new Stuart Baker?) and team are busy playing The Fat Controller with Pendolini what news of the IEP? Clearly DfT Ra...
Railway Garden Competition - Entry withdrawn
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This from London Midland Controller... With reference to this post on your blog (and your distress (!) at the removal of the foliage at Retf...
WSMR under pressure?
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This from the Daily Post ... Passengers warned they could lose Wrexham-London rail link PASSENGERS are being warned to “use or lose” a direc...
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