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Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Pointless signs - Abroad

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This from Globetrotter... A gem from the bay platform at Queensland Rail's Bundaberg station. Other forms of motive power may presumably...
Monday, 19 March 2012

Network Rail eats, shoots and leaves - Official

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Eye is indebted to Mr Rand for this photo and also salutes Network Rail! This sign points unequivocally to the entrance of a station that wa...

Tories claim Northern transport budget too big!

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This telling tale from the Newcastle Journal ... But speaking to The Journal , the Transport Secretary said the North was getting a fairer ...

Pointless signs - Redhill

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This from @cnsqpr ... Southeastern last ran there in '08 and FGW Link haven't existed since '06.

Alan Francis Pegler OBE - RIP

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This via the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway website... Alan Francis Pegler OBE It is with great sadness that we report that Alan Fra...

Railway Garden Competition - Basingstoke

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This from the Mad Hatter... The picture below came with a press release from South West Trains announcing the new look Basingstoke station. ...
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 ...
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