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Thursday, 2 December 2010

Eye salutes those keeping the railway open

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The Network Rail press office is doing a sterling job showing what the industry is doing to keep the railway moving. And providing hardened ...

Trainy Speakibold - FCC

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This from a Mr Sim Harris... In spite of the snow, it's good to see that Professor Unwin has reported for duty.

Social media heroes and villians in the snow

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This from SN Barnes... With lessons obviously learned from last year, Eurostar has outshone most domestic TOC's with their immediate an...

Pointless signs - Ashford International (Domestic)

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Hack praises hack - Shocker!

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This from Captain Deltic... Hats off to Nigel Harris for achieving the difficult task of getting a positive message about railway safety int...
Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Network Rail misplaces new chief exec?

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Exciting news from Transport Times Events! TTE is led by the well connected transport guru Professor David Begg, a man with his fingers firm...

NR lays it on with a trowel...

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Oh dear! The new, improved, caring, sharing and feminised Network Rail is starting to emerge from under the Coucher shadow. This 'icky m...

WCML Upgrade suffers whiteout

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Our man on the Pendolino reports... Conductors on WCML Glasgow to London route have been told to announce over the intercom that: " tra...

MacPorkies?

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This from the The Herald ... Thomas Docherty, a former head of media relations for major projects at Network Rail between 2006 and 2007 and,...
Tuesday, 30 November 2010

FREE POSTER for every Eye reader!

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Please feel free to download, print and display prominently... Why not involve the whole family? Ask the the kids to print off a version ...

Wolmarballs on new rolling stock

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Telegrammed by Our Man at 222 Marylebone Road Britain's self styled greatest living transport expert, quoting from the Grauniad's Pe...

Christmas Railway Garden - Durham

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With a bowler tip to Ricdea , via Twitter... Very festive!
Monday, 29 November 2010

Lesser spotted Eagle threatended with extinction?

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Looks like Ed Milibean is not alone in having his leadership skills questioned. Maria the Eagle may also want to watch her back. This from t...

Vox populi, vox Eye!

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This from John... According to this Cabinet report from Kent County Council ... “ Applications to classify new highways or to alter the clas...

Cross Country still in breach of franchise commitment

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A pretty map has arrived in The Fact Compiler's inbox from retailing website mytrainticket.co.uk But what's this. Something is stran...

First million pound fare - Shocker!

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Exciting news from the National Rail Enquiries website! Regular Eye readers will recollect that ATOC was less than transparent when it annou...
Friday, 26 November 2010

Telegraph backs HS2 - Shocker

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There will be purple faces over Chiltern breakfasts tomorrow! The Torygraph has come out in favour of HS2. This from David Millward ... But ...

Lookalike - Whyter than Wight

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This from Lazarus... I cannot help but notice the striking similarity between Modern Railway's diagram of Glasgow - Edinburgh routes (...

Villiers Vignettes - The sound of silence

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This from The Banker... Cruella was in Leeds this lunchtime on what I think is called a 'whistlestop'. Sadly no whistle in evidence ...

Turkeys vote against Christmas - Shocker!

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This gem from Local Transport Today ... The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) has hit out at the Government’s approach to cu...
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