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Sunday, 26 September 2010

Railway shows off the Big Society in action

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This from Eye follower the Master Draper ... Last Friday I temporarily abandoned my City duties to travel out to the Cliffs Pavilion, Westcl...
Saturday, 25 September 2010

Vulture spikes... unstuck!

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This from The Cynic... You may be interested to learn that the Vulture Spikes on the York station clock, which Eye featured earlier this m...
Friday, 24 September 2010

Achilles well heeled whilst supply chain unshod

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This from Hero of Troy... Whilst the government demands ever greater efficiencies from the industry one particular supplier is making hay wh...

Poetry Corner - Changes at First

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Clarence Spad writes disconsolately... Among my close friends on Reading Station friends there is unalloyed sadness that Sir Moir Lockhead,...
Thursday, 23 September 2010

Railway Gazette offers free iPhone app

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This from @Railwaygazette , via Twitter... Posted at 18:47ish: We've reached a 1000 followers... Thanks everyone! Anyone with an iPhone ...

CSR - It ain't over till the fat lady sings

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On Friday Wolmar delivered a powerful scoop. He claimed that Petrol-head had signed off the DfT's reduced budget and would be joining S...

DB fails to finish race it never started

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It rather looks as if our Teutonic friends are behaving in typically high handed fashion! Much huffing and puffing from DB's Chief Execu...

Railway Garden Competition - Paris Nord

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These pictures taken at the southern end of the Eurostar branch by Herb Aceous... Taken as I prepared to board the 18:13 to St Pancras o...

Nationalised railways flex their muscles...

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This from Rose Hill... In the very week that the European Commission publishes its Recast of the First Railway Package, is it any co-inciden...

Time for slimed down Regulation?

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This from Eunoia... Served on a silver platter courtesy of BBC, Panorama and inevitably some terribly overpaid public sector workers you may...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010

HS2 - Nimbyism alive and well in the 'nasty' party!

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This from Channel 4 News ... Transport Secretary Philip Hammond faces protesters who are campaigning against the new London to Birmingham hi...

Poetry corner - Clarence Spad resurgans!

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This just in from Clarence Spad, Life President of the Young Railway Poets Society... I am just back from being the Young Railway Poet in re...

Railway Garden Competition - Leamington caped

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This from BB... Following the sabotaging of Wolverhampton's Railway Garden entry, perhaps you can find space for this particular effo...

Pointless signs - Bristol Temple Meads

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This from the Wicked Weaver... Bristol Temple Meads still has space for yet more signs. My colleague pointed out this recent addition, adorn...
Tuesday, 21 September 2010

Exciting new PPE kit for the Ladies

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This from the Commander... After the risk-averse culture requiring track visitors to wear all-over orange including trousers, necessitating ...

First for walking by on the other side...

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Oh dear! This from the BBC ... Staff at a rail company gave no medical assistance to a commuter who collapsed, it has emerged. The man col...

RMT flies the flag for Britain!

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Good to see the RMT standing up for the Brits! A RMT spokesman has demanded an apology from Stena lines after a director of the Dutch comp...

Lookalike - lowering the standard?

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Exciting news for Eye's readers at Innotrans in Berlin! The new ERTMS Logo is going to be officially launched on Tuesday 16h30 at the In...

Villiers vignettes... there may be troubles ahead...

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Has the Saviour of the Jammy Dodger turned against Rail Barbie? This from a House of Commons debate on the 15th September 2010 : Theresa Vi...

PMs IEP phone call - Exclusive transcript!

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As Eye readers are no doubt aware Hitachi has been carrying out a vigorous lobbying campaign to rescue the doomed IEP. Even the Japanese pri...
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