Tuesday, 9 November 2010

ATOC's response to PAC report on overcrowding

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Telegrammed by Ithuriel What a pusillanimous lot the train operators are. Here they are responding to today's Public Accounts Committee ...
Monday, 8 November 2010

DfT Business Plan published

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The DfT has published its 2011-15 Business Plan here More to follow... UPDATE: This doesn't bode well... Dr Mike 'Death' Mitchel...

Pointless signs - Northern Rail CCTV

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This with a bowler tip to @jst1986 , via Twitter. Not strictly a pointless sign. But let Eye be the first to conratulate Northern on its at...

How many managers does it take to run a franchise?

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Telegrammed by The High Tea Party So. Directly Operated Railways has published its accounts . Amidst the usual self congratulatory PR puff...

Securing the line - DRS and policing the railway

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Telegrammed by Our International Correspondent The legendary impartial TV reporting of Sky News will be under detailed scrutiny by Direct Ra...

IEP - Three wrongs don't make a right

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Telegrammed by Our Man at 222 Marylebone Road This from the Sunday Express ... The other schemes being examined ahead of this week’s crunch ...

WCML - frying pan to fire

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Exciting news from DB owned Alliance Rail. The putative Open Access Operator is proposing a range of interesting new services on the West Co...
Friday, 5 November 2010

Railway Garden Competition - Retford Restored!

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This from a Mr Swift... You may recall the mindless destruction of Retford's wonderful Railway Garde n by the vegetation control vand...

HS1 flogged to the Canucks

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This from Sharecast.com ... LONDON (SHARECAST) - The government has sold the right to run the high speed rail link between London and the Ch...

Lookalike - Celtic Fringe Edition

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Thursday, 4 November 2010

HSBC's Eversholt sold - Banks out!

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This from AltAssets.com ... A consortium of infrastructure investors has acquired UK rolling stock company Eversholt Rail Group from ba...

Insults fly in advance of Golden Spanners - Shocker

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This from an email invite to the Fourth Friday Club ' Golden Spanners ' awards... We have a large number of sponsored tables and mem...

IEP - Baker cooks up a deal

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This from Our Man at 222 Marylebone Road According to Financial Times Political Correspondent, Jim Pickard , the DfT is using the threat of ...

Germans bomb at Palace again

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Oh dear. Does Eye detect a degree of Palace dissatisfaction with the operator of the Royal Train? This from the Mail on Sunday ... The man d...

First for being inconsistant

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Compare and contrast... This in today's Glasgow Herald ... New FirstGroup chief executive Tim O’Toole has dismissed Stagecoach founder B...
Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Changes to the Transport Select Committee

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This from the TSC... 3 November 2010 For Immediate Release: SCA 17/2010-11 NEW MEMBERS OF TRANSPORT COMMITTEE appointed On Tuesday 2 Novem...
Tuesday, 2 November 2010

DB slashes a quarter of rail services

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This from Wrexham and Shropshire, via RailUKForums ... Press Release 2 November 2010 Wrexham and Shropshire : Changes to Train Services W...

Election fever getting to Wolmar?

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This from a Dr Frank N Furter... According to the self styled ' leading transport commentator ' in his blogpost dated 1st November :...

Tories forced to clear up the mess they made

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From Thursday we can expect to hear a series of announcements outlining how much railway the country can afford. Amusing of course that it i...

Hitachi recruits for new factory - Exclusive

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Eye can reveal that Hitachi has already begun recruiting for its new IEP factory! This exclusive video, smuggled out of the new Newton Aycli...