Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Railway Garden Competition - London Bridge

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Transport Select Committee does Social Media!

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Louise Ellman, the Chair of the Transport Select Committee, has taken to YouTube to promote an inquiry into High Speed 2 Evidence is being t...
Monday, 20 June 2011

Network Rail posts first experts overseas

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This from Network Rail ... Who’s tougher? The Army, Air Force or Navy? In fact, it’s Network Rail. So proved our apprentices in the annual J...

Pointless signs - Paddington Gap

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The Fact Compiler is unsure whether the following actually happened, but as Eye has received images from two different sources supposes it m...

Department for Transport to be renamed - Official

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Exciting news from the Department for Transport! Following the success of the Marsham Street Mandarins in awarding the IEP and Thameslink ro...

Surrender monkeys stifle Chunnel competition?

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This from Lloyds Loading List ... Attempts by three French Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to gain exemption from European railwa...

Pointless signs - EMT Passenger Charter

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Sunday, 19 June 2011

EMT launches personal Sleepers - Shocker

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Apparently those naughty Top Gear boys have been filming on the Great Central Railway! This from the Leicester Mercury ... To avoid palpitat...

Network Rail Projects goes back to the future

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Eye notices with interest that Network Rail is opening up to 'contestability'. This from the FT : Under the plans, Network Rail’s p...

Pointless signs - Warwick

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Pointless signs - Paddington

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Saturday, 18 June 2011

NR announces more Route MDs

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This from Network Rail... Route managing directors confirmed for more routes With the next routes moving to a devolved structure in October ...
Thursday, 16 June 2011

So where is Philip Hammond today?

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So where is the Secretary of State today? Eye finds it a little surprising that Petrol-head should be missing on the day when his department...

Thameslink fleet announced

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BBC reporting that Siemens has won the contract for the Thameslink fleet. More to follow... If true, brave of cowardly-custard Petrol-head t...

Railtex - day two

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The Fact Compiler remains busy at Railtex. And, with the whole industry, awaits todays announcement with interest...
Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Eye at Railtex

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The Fact Compiler has been busy at Railtex See what you've been missing here... Still two more days in which to come down and join in th...
Sunday, 12 June 2011

Pointless signs - Par

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New trains - an historical perspective

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On the 801st day without an order for new trains. This with a bowler tip to British Railways.tv ... It's all 'elf and safety gone ma...
Saturday, 11 June 2011

Railway Gongs

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Eye congratulates the following: Knights Bachelor Tony Hawkhead, chief executive, Groundwork, the environmental charities group David Higgin...

New Trains - 800 days of talk and no trousers!

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This from Captain Deltic... Today, 11 June, is the 800th day since the last rolling stock order was placed. Note, placed, not preferred bid...