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Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Pointless signs - Diss

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This from Gricerbritannia... Two new “Help points” were installed at Diss station during the dying days of NXEA. At the same time the PIS-po...

Conference news - tail lamp slot

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Good to see that the railfreight community retains its sense of humour! The UK Rail Development and Investment conference (18-19 April) offe...
Tuesday, 13 March 2012

EC Pendolino - There is more joy in heaven...

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A perfect run last night from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Cross! Operated by Virgin Trains... Controlled by East Coast... Burying IEP! ...

NR public or private - PAC weighs in

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This from today's Public Accounts Committee report into Reducing costs in the Department for Transport ... It is unacceptable that Netwo...
Monday, 12 March 2012

Rutman named as new PS at DfT

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So a big Eye welcome to Philip Rutnam, who has been appointed the new Permanent Secretary at the DfT. Rutman is currently Director General B...

Great & the good meet to focus on costs

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Exciting news reaches Eye of a brand new professional association designed to bring together the great and the good of the railway! The ...

RMT announce date of the Revolution!

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To the barricades Comrades! This stonking piece of polemic from the RMT ... RAIL UNION RMT announced today it is holding a Budget “Day of Ac...

Pointless signs - Broxbourne

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Pointless signs - Egham

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Friday, 9 March 2012

East Coast goes MAD for Railway Children

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This from John Gelson over at East Coast... I thought Eye readers might be interested in East Coast's support for the Railway Children...

Command Paper - Measuring progress

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This from Captain Deltic... Celebrating 19 years of government meddling John Major in 1993 - " British Rail is deeply inefficient ...

Command Paper 'great leap forward'

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This from Our Man at 222 Marylebone Road... Readers of Soviet Weekly's reports of party conferences in the 1950s will recognise the styl...

Deltic rails at Deadwood's history rewrite

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The mad Vulcan is at it again. This near illiterate anti-rail rant from Redwood's blog : Listening today to criticisms of the governemnt...

Fares consultation - slapdash is the word!

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This from Mrs A P Tis... May I salute the Department for Transport for living up to its legendary reputation for attention to detail? A quic...

The future of railway Smart-ticketing - Exclusive

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This from a Mr Rabid Burns... I can exclusively reveal the details of the new DfT smart-ticketing systems that the Command Paper referenced...
Thursday, 8 March 2012

Command Paper celebrates the markets!

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This from Captain Deltic... I note from section 4.67 of the Command Paper that: Our preference would be that, building on the Competition C...

Railway Garden Competition - Tottenham Hale

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Perhaps Clog Rail, with their home-grown expertise in water management, can do a little better than the previous franchisee?

NR turns to Ford... again for new Chairman

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This from Stockmarketwire.com... Professor Richard Parry-Jones is to be the next chairman of Network Rail. It is his intention to appoint a...

ITSO in disarray as CEO departs

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Good to see that the government's plans for smartcards are going well. According to Modern Railways ... Michael Leach has left...
Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Manuel Cortes fires up the Quattro

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Oh dear. This from the leader of the TSSA today: Manuel Cortes said: "If the local booking office goes, then the station itself will no...
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