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Friday, 20 August 2010

The Fact Compiler is on his hols...

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So posting will be, at best, intermittent. No doubt a source of relief to many.
Thursday, 19 August 2010

Railway Magazine changes ownership?

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Eye understands that Mortons Media Group may be adding Railway Magazine to its growing portfolio of titles. Regular Eye readers will recall ...

Health and safety spared the Age of Austerity

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Hot on the heels of the Coucher Memorial Fencing which has been sprouting up around the network comes the latest in safety gold plating. We...

Trolley Travels - Telford

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ATOC plans secret station opening - Shocker

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Is ATOC secretly planning to open a new station? Or does this page reflect its view of passengers? Eye thinks we should be told? UPDATE: Thi...

Railway Garden Competition - Wolverhampton

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This from D0260... Notice that this particular Railway Garden is safely under the watching eye of a CCTV camera.

Trolley Travels - Exciting new feature

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Time for an exciting new feature focusing on the travels of platform trolleys! This from Alex (13 years)... Presumably this Yorkist trolley ...

Railway Garden Competition - Bethnal Green

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Railway Garden Competition - Hackney Downs

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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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