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Saturday, 12 February 2011

Exciting privatisation news from abroad

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Good news from The Zimbabwean ... HARARE - The government is considering opening up the railway network to private players, says State Enter...
Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Ken Livingstone wins European Railway Award

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Eye congratulates Ken Livingstone for winning the European Railway Award! This from some people abroad... Ken Livingstone and Stefan Haas re...

DB masters the skies!

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This exciting news from DB's Trade & Press newsletter, just landed... Deutsche Bahn launches “flying trains” to promote Rail&Fly...

Peter Fox RIP

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Eye understands that Peter Fox, master of the Platform 5 publishing empire, passed away yesterday. The Fact Compiler adds his condolences to...
Tuesday, 8 February 2011

No surprises as another DafT procurement fails

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Regular Eye readers will not be surprised to see that yet another DafT procurement exercise has gone tits-up. This from the Beeb ... Plans t...

Pointless signs - Didcot Parkway

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This from Concerned of Caversham... Spotted at Didcot Parkway station: Is this a cunning ruse to ensure that any fire does full justice to d...
Monday, 7 February 2011

Network Rail - old habits die hard...

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This from a Resident of Grub Street... Despite last week's arrival of ' Huggable Higgins ' NR still appears unable to shake off ...

Pointless signs - Croxley Green

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Love-in on the East Coast?

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This from King Henry... Exciting news from the country's two remaining Open Access Operators. According to the National Rail website... ...

Pointless signs - Hamilton Square, Merseyrail

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UPDATE: This from Rudi at Merseyrail... Not quite as pointless as you might think at first glance; it marks the area on the platform where t...

Pointless signs - Oxford

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This from Globetrotter... On a recent visit to Oxford, I spotted this gem in the middle of the station approach. Apart from the fact that wo...
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...
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