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Monday, 18 July 2011

TSC to look into UK Rolling Stock Procurement

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This from the Transport Select Committee... 13 July 2011 For Immediate Release: SCA 76/201...

Pointless signs - Bolton

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This from a Mr Oi! £4M has been spent on refurbishing Bolton Station. Although it seems the budget didn’t quite stretch to removing the resi...

Lookalike - Nice... but dim?

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This from the recently published CRESC Research Report: How not to build trains ... But what has happened now, with the train crash at Bomba...
Friday, 15 July 2011

Villiers Vignettes - UK Supply Chain can go hang

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This from Ithuriel... Theresa Villiers did her best to talk up the prospects for the UK rolling stock market in a Westminster Hall debate de...

Franksy makes return to Big Railway

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This from Keolis... Today Keolis, the international transport operator, announces the appointment of David Franks as Managing Director for N...

Cascaded D stock for Community Railways?

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How very like the western branches of the District line. You wait for one D stock story and then two turn up at once. Interesting news f...
Thursday, 14 July 2011

Pointless signs - D Stock

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With a bowler tip to @DriverPotter ... Perhaps a method of PIDD signage that in future may benefit the North?

Germany sends gunship to enforce Thameslink!

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This from Ann Adaptor (with additional reporting by Mike Flex and Mike Stand)... Just three weeks ago it looked as if Berlin had successfu...

DfT to review competition weighting - Shocker

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This from the Man Locked Out of His Room... Siemens lose at something! No doubt the Department for Transfer will conduct an inquiry into t...

Railway Garden Competition - Darlington

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This from Bertie Forest... Contrast the lush green verdant track gardens of Network Rail's estate with this dried and withered planter a...
Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Railway Garden Competition - Gloucester

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This from Rover... The track machine is named "Tiger", so there really is a Tiger in this jungle...

Exciting new Eye feature - Gradient Palindromes

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Time for an exciting, but utterly pointless, new Eye feature - welcome to Gradient Palindromes! This from Nick... Here is a picture of the...
Monday, 11 July 2011

Pointless signs - Hyde North

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This from the Banker... Evidently attention to detail is also lacking in Tameside as this sign on Victoria Road for Hyde North shows. Eye wo...

Labour leader ducks a meeting with RMT!

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An extra-ordinary tweet from @RMTLondon ... So Ed Milliband didn't go to Durham Miner's Gala as he 'didn't want to share a p...

Pointless signs - King's Cross

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This from a Mr Malins... Perhaps more about attention to detail than an actual pointless sign?

Pointless signs - Feet on or off the seats?

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Miles and chains - a sign of the times?

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This from the late Edmund Gunter... Sadly the new generation of railway employees appear ignorant of traditional British units of measuremen...

Do Christmas Turkeys have privs?

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This from Smalltrousers... It's often said that the modern railway has a touch of the surreal about it, but maybe none more so than this...
Sunday, 10 July 2011

Hammond shy at Silverstone Grand Prix

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This, amazingly, from the late Denis Jenkinson, legendary correspondent of 'Motor Sport'... I though Eye readers would like the in...
Friday, 8 July 2011

Joined up Government explained

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So on the very same day that Bombardier announced potential job losses, doddery Business Secretary Vince Cable launched the Made by Britain ...
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