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Sunday, 6 February 2011

Rail privatisation has failed - Official (again)

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Oh how we laughed! The last time the current lot were in power we were assured that Nationalised industries were woefully inefficient at run...
Friday, 4 February 2011

Pointless signs - Euston

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UPDATE: This from Mike... That's just pathetic, especially since there's an official sign! This may interest you, a website that sho...

Virgin cracks joke in advance of Franchise bid!

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This side splitter from the Birmingham Post ... Virgin Trains has vowed to fill the high-quality customer service void left by the collapse ...

First for exemplary customer service

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This from the Pirate of Penzance... It's been all action on the 12:06 Paddington to Penzance today ... A gentleman got on at Reading and...

EMT - Off with their heads!

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This from a Mr PMB... One wonders if defacing an image of the Monarch is still considered to be an act of treason? If so, the marketing luvv...

NR restructuring shocker!

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Shocking news from Network Rail! M&C will become East Midlands route with Martin Frobisher, currently route infrastructure maintenance d...

Pointless signs - York

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This from A Conductor... I saw this pointless sign at York station yesterday. Please note the lack of spell checking, but it's also wort...
Thursday, 3 February 2011

Adam Smith Institute plays trains

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Good to see that the Adam Smith Institute has its fingers well and truly on the pulse. An article from the think tank celebrating the ' ...

DafT invests £27m and buys errr... nothing!

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Exciting news from the ever-profligate Department for Transport. This written answer from Cruella on the 1st February... John McDonnell (Ha...
Tuesday, 1 February 2011

Labour abandons previous transport pledges?

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Like her namesake Eddie, Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary is going downhill fast! This from Maria the Eagle, in the Evening Standard ...

January visitors to Railway Eye

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In January Railway Eye received 40,696 visits from 13,767 unique visitors . According to Google Analytics you viewed 52,690 splenetic utte...

NR - Open, transparent, accountable, responsive?

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David Higgins starts as Network Rail's new CEO today. This from the man himself ... “l also want people to associate these words with ...
Monday, 31 January 2011

More piccies of celebrity loco 70012 'Powerfall'

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These fine images from Captain Ahab... Freightliner has apparently denied that this is a design mod in preparation for returning traffic to...

DB continues to view GB as second class market

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This by way of a gratuitous dig at the WSMR closing, Class 66 exporting and WiFi avoiding Deutsche Reichsbahn... In a major boost for rail p...

Now Chinese lobby to supply trains to UK

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As usual, Eye is bang on the nail! This posted by our columnist, The Marsham Street Observer , on Wednesday the 19th January... The place [...

Crow claims phone hacked

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Exciting news from Crow Bar Bob! Apparently the great man believes that his mobile phone may have been hacked, along with those of other rea...
Wednesday, 26 January 2011

WSMRballs - Thought crime!

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This from Steve Strong... Does today's announcement mean that Adrian Shooter is the last BR Director to close an entire route? Naughty!

Mary Grant to leave First Group

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As predicted by Eye's slightly cryptic post yesterday Mary Grant is to depart First Group. This from First's website : Mary Grant, ...

DfT roads team drives freight off rail

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This from Rose Hill... After months of uncertainty, DFT has finally announced that the long running Freight Facilities Grant scheme has been...

Video nasty?

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This from Widows Peak... This surreal YouTube video has currently been viewed by nine people. Would any Eye readers have a clue as to what o...
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