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Friday, 16 March 2012

Banbury 'La-de-da' Mess room sign

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This from @drew2611 ... Was amused by FCC Drivers' mess sign however I think ours at Banbury gives a touch of class: Eye bets they don...

Eye Enterprises presents The Olympic Scotsman!

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YOU could own a part of 2012! Eye Enterprises is offering a unique opportunity to acquire a 1.76th representation of national icon Flying Sc...

Crossrail Handicap runners and riders

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This from our Racing Correspondent... With the Invitation to Negotiate for the Crossrail fleet issued, bookmakers Paddy Hill have published...
Thursday, 15 March 2012

Network Rail statement on Elsenham

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Network Rail was today fined £1m after the company pleaded guilty to Health and Safety breaches at Chelmsford Crown Court. Network Rail issu...

Peterborough mess room sign

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Nice!

Villiers vignettes - rewriting history

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This from Ithuriel... From a written answer by Theresa Villiers on 6 March . DfT asked the rail industry to look into the possibility of im...

Pointless signs - Derby

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This one perhaps misses the point... Sadly.

Thoughts on King's Cross western ticket hall

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A brief reflection on the truly magnificent new western ticket hall at King's Cross. At Broad Street we lost a station to development. A...
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...
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