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Friday, 18 February 2011

Get ready for the new Railways Act

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This from Louise Ellman at Thursday's Westminster Hall debate on Investment Priorities for the Railways: The Select Committee takes rai...

Latest ABC figures show print holding up

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It's ABC time again... As Eye pointed out last year most railway titles don't submit themselves to the indignity of an ABC circula...
Thursday, 17 February 2011

Virgin fails to learn from aviation experience

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This from Our Independent Expert... Q. Would Virgin Airlines allow one of it's planes to fly with bits missing? A. Exactly! So why is ...
Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Huggable Higgins in front of the TSC

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NETWORK RAIL – ORAL EVIDENCE SESSION Tuesday 1 March 2011 Committee Room 6, House of Commons The Transport Committee will be taking oral evi...

Eureka!!!! emerges into the light of day!

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This from Albatross... The much awaited EUREKA East Coast time table is now available in all its “ GORY ” on the East Coast website . For th...

Arriva celebrates arrival of on-board WiFi

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This from The Man by the Photocopier... Well, well, well. With just ONE CrossCountry Voyager finally equipped with wi-fi after years of fra...

Captain Deltic issues a call to arms!

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This from the good Captain (for it is he)... Another railway research strategy consultation document has been published - this time by cons...
Monday, 14 February 2011

Septic scribbler screws NRs budget

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This from ITV ... Best-selling author Bill Bryson, who lives in Norfolk, is fronting a new campaign to clean up England's railways. Brys...

Peter Fox's funeral service Friday 18th February

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This from Robert at Today's Railways... Peter Fox’s funeral service will be held at Carterknowle Methodist Church, Edgedale Road, Sheffi...

Chiltern enters Pisspoor PR Awards

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According to @Chilternrailway ... Our VIPs Wills and Kate at Marylebone. No doubt this wheeze had them rolling in the aisles in Berlin? UP...

Mail's transport correspondent gets spanked botty

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Does SouthEastern have a guardian angel? On Saturday the Daily Mail ran this story ... For once, it wasn’t wet weather outdoors that caused ...

NR looks for new Comms Director

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With Huggable Higgins now in place NR is looking to fill the other half of the former Coucher Pender combo. Yesterday's Sunday Times con...

Wifi finally appears on a CrossCountry train

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First Arriva CrossCountry wifi enabled set in traffic . As exclusively revealed by Eye on the 21st January and seen in service on Friday. W...
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 ...
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