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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Idiots About The Line - Soham

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Time for an exciting new Eye feature - Idiots About The Line! Our first entry comes from the Newmarket Journal ... Eye salute...

The benefits of privatisation explained - No 94

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This from Railnews ... CANCELLATIONS of London Midland services are set to continue until December, the operator has warned. More than...
Monday, 22 October 2012

Railway Garden Competition - Birmingham New St

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This from JT19... Good to see that despite the modernisation works at Birmingham New Street these heritage railway gardens look se...

Thinly capitalised equity profiteers fight back!

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This from a Mr Prester John...   Bring back British Rail?  Je don't think so! UPDATE: This from Our International Corr...

Railway Garden Competition - Worlaby

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This from a Mr Verdant... Never have I seen such a perfect lawn except, possibly, at Wimbledon.
Saturday, 20 October 2012

Introducing the new Chief Whip...

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This via @HeardinLondon ... The good news about Sir George Young is that he takes his family on the train. The bad news is #TheAgeOfTheT...
Friday, 19 October 2012

Lookalike - Political careers derailed 1830-2012

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UPDATE: This from Everyone... It would appear that the now former Chief Whip, Andrew Mitchell, has saved Gideon's political bacon.....

Gideon Gripped!

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This from @RachTownsendITV (for non Twitter regulars read from the bottom up)... That's the SOFA slashed then.

Bare faced cheek from mainland Europe!

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This headline from New Europe On-line: EU Update ... "UK’s rail transport interoperability with Europe’s mainland still lacks behind...

Porterbrook - Bringing home the bratwurst!

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This from Tommy Atkins... Exciting news from the nation's favourite ROSCO... Porterbrook Leasing has signed a contract with LNWR to ...

Railway Garden Competition - Abroad

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This from a Mr Door Bell... Here are a couple of pics of the approach to Lindau HBf on Lake Constance, Germany. Note the keenness w...
Thursday, 18 October 2012

FT opines on DfT's brain drain

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This from the Eminence Grise... Perusing your amusing blog I was surprised that this gem from the Pink'un of...

TSC - A voice crying in the wilderness...

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This from a Mr Tony Miles... I found this Transport Select Committee report from 2009 It makes interesting reading in the light of ...
Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Raging against the SE twitter feed

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This from SouthEastern's twitter feed... person hit trains through Gillingham Kt & Faversham subject to 45 mins delay & canc #...

ATOC and RDG members have their work cut out

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This from AE Watson... I note that the work to be undertaken by RDG on franchising is to be distinct from that done by ATOC. Looks ...

Railway Garden Competition - Durham

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This via @Arctic_Troll ...   Disgraceful! And not even Advent yet.

RDG publishes initial thoughts on Franchise Review

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This from the minutes of the 9th October meeting of the Rail Delivery Group ... Independent review of franchising   This item had been pl...

Varsity Line's radical rolling stock solution

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This from Poppy the Station Cat... Good to see that the promoters of East West Rail have embraced the Age of Austerity! Clearly aware of...

ORR backs new talking shop.

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Exciting news from the Office of Rail Regulation ! The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) has today announced that it supports the formalisat...
Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Richard Brown Review - Remit published

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This from the Department for Transport ... Text of letter from the Secretary of State to Richard Brown   15 Oct 2012   Following my deci...
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