Tuesday, 7 June 2011
11 Car Pendolino Whitewash - Shocker
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This with a bowler tip to Eastwood Ho! How typical! These Hollywood Blockbusters always manage to avoid mentioning the real heroes. Stand up...
What a lovely figure - NR in the money markets
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This from Reuters ... June 7 ( Reuters ) -Following are terms and conditions of an FRN priced on Tuesday. Borrower ...
Heritage railway grows up?
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This from the RMT ... RMT MEMBERS at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway are to impose an overtime ban and work-to-rule from a minute after mi...
BarbieRail short formed?
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Has anyone seen the Customer Services Director? That is all.
Balfour Beatty loses Comms Director
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This from GorkanaPR ... Duncan Murray, director of corporate communications at Balfour Beatty plc, is to leave the global infrastructure com...
NXEA excels at making photographers welcome
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This from a clearly very annoyed Mr Tony Miles... Station staff at Colchester just told me that it is not permitted to wear a switched off c...
Friday, 3 June 2011
Magistrates throw book at cement mixer driver
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This from the Elmbridge Guardian ... The driver of a cement mixer that crashed off a bridge on to a passing train has been fined £100 and h...
DafT misses its own Thameslink deadline
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Well there's a surprise! Fingers out chaps.
The benefits of franchising explained
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This from Austin Healey ... Has anyone spotted the sudden rush to slap paint on VT stations? Here the waiting room at Stafford. And here, th...
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
World's most ironic headline - Official!
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This from the Communist Party! RAIL: On the wrong track Eye supposes that this knowledge comes from experience?
Villiers vignettes - Can't count, won't count
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Telegrammed by Ithuriel According to Cruella de Villiers, responding to yet another train spotterish question from Maria the Eagle... Given ...
TIE goes from strength to strength
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Good news for fans of Tram schemes! This from The Scotsman ... The four non-executive directors of TIE are understood to have quit last we...
Green Hammond Eggs
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This for fans of Dr Seuss... Okay - there were no eggs.
NR produces Rolling Stock RUS
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This from GJ Churchward... So Network Rail has published a Rolling Stock RUS ! Eye readers can discover the salient points here: We have pub...
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
DfT rebalances the deck chairs...
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Exciting news from the Department! According to industry sources DafT have rebalanced Ministerial portfolios. The Minister of State, Theresa...
Monday, 30 May 2011
Railway Garden Competition - Bodmin Parkway
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Friday, 27 May 2011
Hitachiballs - The IEP's 'green' credentials
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This from Ithuriel... Quoted in the Greenwise Weekly e-Newsletter "One of the things that our trains will do is they will use less e...
Pointless signs - Matlock
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This is the scene at Matlock where new track has been laid into Platform 2 for the use of Peak Rail. Or perhaps not.
Pointless signs - The benefits of WiFi
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This with a bowler tip to @HolyMoly ... 'Nuff said.
Thursday, 26 May 2011
East Coast goes for Scottish hearts and minds
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Good news for the North British legal fraternity! Despite apparently missing out on #Flawsuit there still appear to be plenty of opportunit...
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