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Friday, 25 May 2012

Railway Garden Competition - Derby astroturf

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Derby Telegraph wins award for Derbygate campaign

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Good news from today's Regional Press Awards... The Derby Telegraph has won two awards. The paper won Campaigning Newspaper of t...

Chiltern unveils new Mk3 fleet

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Chiltern unveiled their new Mk3s with plug doors and retention tanks today. It didn't take the wags long to make their presence fel...
Thursday, 24 May 2012

First Community Rail iPhone app launched

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So. The once supposedly doomed Community Rail Lines are yet again putting mainstream TOCs to shame! Whilst the marketing genii of the p...

NR unveils mono-rail trial in Bedfordshire

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This from the Cardinal...   As you can see the new platform for the mono-rail station at Sandy is coming on well. Good to see th...

Villiers lets slip size of CP5 Budget - Shocker!

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Tafia Vanity Express partially derailed

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This from ITV ... The Welsh Government have announced changes to the North-South Wales express train service. From September this ...

Life imitates art - No. 94

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Good to see that the Highways Agency is up to speed. This from the glossary of the ' Post Opening Project Evaluation, M27 J11-12 Cl...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Exclusive - Baker 'crosses the floor' shocker

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This from Aslef ... "A letter from the Conservative Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, No...

Carlsberg moment in Kemble Street

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This from Captain Deltic... According to ORR its objective for the current Periodic Review is: ...ensuring our determination enables Net...

Smooth man gets hot and bothered, possibly

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Eye was amused to receive the following email from Odgers' uber-recruitment guru Tim Hartley. Well not from him, obviously, but fro...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012

News from the wild side - Phineas Gage

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This from Reuters ...      Errr... railways pushing forward the boundaries of science?
Monday, 21 May 2012

Hendy - Railway Hero?

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This from the BBC's Tom Edwards... @BBCTomEdwards : Peter Hendy very proud he has been awarded the "beer drinker of the year...

Derbygate - the chickens come home to roost!

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This from a Mr Saltaire... I wonder if Eye readers have spotted this gem from Cruella given in the House on the 17th May ? Maria Eag...

Pointless signs - Wimbledon

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Railway Garden Competition - Euston Carriage Sidings

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Friday, 18 May 2012

Pointless sign - Penge West

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Or Railway Garden? You decide.

Pointlesss signs - Nottingham

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  UPDATE: This from Willow... They'll have done this to avoid planning permission. It may be poin...
Thursday, 17 May 2012

Sedgefield MP exposes massive cuts to IEP

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Oh dear! It looks like the IEP project has been reduced to plumping the cushions and painting the buffers of the HST fleet. This fr...

Stormin' Norman bulldozes TramTrain through

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According to the Department for Transport ... Transport Minister Norman Baker today gave the green light to a £58m pilot scheme to run...
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