Thursday, 7 July 2011
Cruella travels down memory lane
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Saviour of the Jammy Dodger, Theresa Villiers, has been reliving past glories! "And as thanks they gave me one this big!"
Cameron and the weasel words
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Eye understands that when David Cameron took the cabinet to Derby in March he paid a visit to the Bombardier site. At the time iDave made mu...
Plaudits for the Department for Transfer - Shocker
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This, unbelievably, from Gordon Gekko... Time to stop whining about your cockamamie train factory, Limeys! Don't you realise your Depart...
DafT dithers as SWT commuters suffer
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This from Pontius Pilate... Can I say how encouraged I am to see that hand washing over major issues is now this government's official t...
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Exciting New Eye Feature - Railway Bothys!
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This from the Mad Hatter... Whilst Eye is renowned for its Railway Garden Competition, how about a similar challenge for railway garden sh...
Pointless signs - Berney Arms
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This from 31154... From a timetable " commencing 22nd May 201 1 " . UPDATE: This from The Sleeper... That's all due to the fac...
ScotRail redacts BR - Shocker
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Wolmar on the nail!
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This from the World's Greatest Living Transport Correspondent, writing in today's Grauniad ... It is difficult not to be pessimistic...
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Hammond - master of all he surveys
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This from Sir Humphrey Beeching... A most pleasant luncheon at Boisdale, in Pimlico today. Over a thoroughly agreeable postprandial dram (th...
Railway Garden Competition - Harrow & Wealdstone
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Hammond fiddles while Derby burns
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After a busy morning defending the arduous task of 'opening envelopes' it is good to see that the Secretary of State is still able t...
From the Hammond Organs to Kelly's Heroes?
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Regular Eye readers will recall that the DafT press office is lovingly referred to as the Hammond Organs. Now Network Rail's media monke...
Bombardier - Almost 1,500 Derby jobs to go
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This from Bombardier Transportation... Bombardier Transportation Announces Proposed Downsizing at its Derby facility Loss of Thameslink cont...
Monday, 4 July 2011
Don't tell him Pike!
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This from Herr Restorer of Deutsche Reichsbahn... You Britishers are a funny lot. Either you like to dress as Germans to ride aboard you...
Where will Cowardly Custard be tomorrow?
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This from Sky News ... Train-making firm Bombardier is set to announce up to 2,000 job losses - with the Government's decision to award ...
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Poetry Korner - The Night Mail (updated)
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This from Trailer Second, with apologies to W H Auden... This is the Voyager crossing the Border Standing room only, unless you pre order Se...
Petrol-head puts on the knuckle-duster
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Given the lukewarm response of the industry to McNulty it is perhaps not surprising that Cowardly Custard has had to get a bit fierce. This ...
Pointless signs - Basingstoke
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Railway Garden Competition - Horsham
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Railway Garden Competition - Peterborough Yard
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UPDATE: This from 31154 ... I think your picture of Peterborough Yard requires a new category - Railway Farming Competition perhaps? Very cl...
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