Sunday, 20 March 2011
Luvvie Wilson faces lifetime rail ban - Shocker
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Much excitement in railway press offices across the land! Luvvie Wilson has taken to the media trail to promote tomorrow's Channel 4 Dis...
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Hammond upstaged by Railway press - Shocker
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Disturbing scenes at today's official launch of NXEA's new Stansted Express fleet at London's Liverpool Street! Petrol-head did...
Channel 4 Dispatches has one foot in the grave
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Good news for devotees of incisive reporting! Channel 4 Dispatches is airing a programme on Monday night boldly entitled "Train journey...
Japan - Book of condolence at NRM
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This from York's The Press ... A BOOK of condolence for victims of the Japanese earthquake will be opened tomorrow at the National Ra...
Tesco up to its old tricks
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What is it with supermarket giant Tesco and structures across the railway? Who can forget the debacle in 2005 when Chiltern services were su...
NRESballs - Liverpool Street
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This from the National Rail Enquiries website yesterday... Mr Scales empire goes from strength to strength!
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Evergreen 3 - Berlin is in charge!
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This from Globetrotter... In your story of yesterday about the Evergreen 3 engineering works overrun, you end: “ Let's see who fesses u...
NR's new Public Members training programme
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Sharp eyed readers of the Sunday press will have seen that Network Rail is advertising for Public Members . In the past the likes of Captain...
Annoying man being rude at King's Cross
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Eye is alerted to a televisual feast by the Internet Rapid Rebuttal Unit... It's not just King's Cross that is getting a makeover! G...
Monday, 14 March 2011
A statement from East Japan Railway Company
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This from the East Japan Railway Company, sent to members of the UIC... Dear UIC Members As you may already know, on Friday, March 11, 2011,...
Rail Barbie's empire to expand?
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This from Virginia Water... I see in yesterday's Observer that First Group are considering handing back the keys on the Great Western f...
Evergreen 3 - who is in charge?
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So who is running Evergreen 3? Two weeks ago Michael Lee, the ORR’s director of railway planning, said: "The risk of not completing it ...
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Special Adviser pay-scales published
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So the Cabinet Office has published the list of Special Advisers and their salary ranges. The Secretary of State for Transport's SpAds ...
Pointless signs - XC Comfort Zone
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This with a bowler tip to @TwopTips , via Twitter and a Mr Jones... "Nice to see Cross Country Trains have designated areas for mastur...
Welcome to the Tafia Express
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This from Owain Glyn Dour... According to the BBC ... A north-south rail service that takes in Wrexham will begin in May, the assembly gove...
Hitachiballs - On opening up Japanese markets
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Regular Eye readers will recall that UNIFE reacted with fury to Petrol-head's decision to award the IEP contract to Hitachi. In particul...
Frenchies advance to the rear - again
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This from Bloomburg ... The French government said it won’t bar Siemens AG (SIE)trains from the Channel Tunnel if Europe’s rail- safety agen...
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Huggable ditches 2010-11 Exec bonuses
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This from Network Rail ... Network Rail today announces that it will not be paying an annual bonus to its executive directors in respect of ...
Pointless signs - Camden Road
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This from Billy Connections... Camden Road at 15.30 yesterday - showing the 06.51 delayed to 17.33. AND every 5 minutes an automated PA anno...
ATOC think piece warmly welcomed
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Exciting news from ATOC! The Association of Train Operating Companies has published a position paper on industry structural reform. The d...
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