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Monday, 12 November 2012

ORR makes grab for fares regulation

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This from Sue Persaver... In her evidence at today's Transport Select Committee, Anna Walker, Chair of ORR suggested that she was ...

Alliance goes Jesuit on railway safety

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This from Network Rail ... Children in primary schools across the south and south west of England are to take the lead in educating ...

ICWC fiasco - RMT consult M'learned friends

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This from the RMT ... RAIL UNION RMT today notified the Government that it will be petitioning the European Commisson over breaches of th...

Pointless signs - Welwyn Garden City

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This from a Mr Lost in Space...   Or perhaps a Railway Garden?

First TPE in wage cost-push - Shocker

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This from George & Weedon Grossmith... Good news for the train driving community: TPE may expect bumper crop of app...

Longsight honours war dead

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This from Alstom (who actually bother to send press releases to Railway Eye, other PRs please note)... Manchester Traincare Centre hosts s...

Virgin on the ridiculous - part 94

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This from Our Man by the Photocopier... Virgin Trains has issued a timely press release about Christmas travel which includes the fol...

Railway Garden Competition - Birmingham Int'l

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Blessed to do announcements on SWT?

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This from @BrianBlessed ... I'll do the voiceover for @sw_trains if my fee is donated to Samaritans @My6Percent @joekolakowski #MINDTH...
Friday, 9 November 2012

Changes to NR Route reporting lines

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Network Rail has made some changes to Route reporting lines. Apparently... The East Midlands Route will come under LNE with Martin Fr...

Metal Theft bill makes it through to Lords!

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Some genuine good news for once! This from the NR, ATOC and RfG ... Rail industry welcomes MP support for vital Scrap Metal Dealers Bill...

Philip Davies MP speaks on Metal Theft

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Further to yesterday's post about  the risk to Richard Ottoway's Metal Theft bill ...   A number of Eye readers have been in con...
Thursday, 8 November 2012

Brown Review - Same old, same old. Official

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Good news from today's RDG Second Industry Forum ! According to the man himself, the Richard Brown Review aims to deliver a "mini...

Two MPs threaten to derail Metal Theft bill

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This from the Local Government Association ... On the eve of Remembrance Sunday, local authorities are pressing for urgent action to be ...

Pointless signs - LUL Liverpool Street

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Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Wisdom from Aslef...

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This from Aslef ...   Scots derailment: Union calls for action Mick Whelan, ASLEF’s general secretary, today called for rail safety modules...

ATOC - Mobile ticketing goes live

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Good news indeed from ATOC ...   Buy your rail ticket on the move with National Rail Enquiries It is now even easier for passengers to buy...
Monday, 5 November 2012

NRES - better late than never?

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This from the Sleeper...   Nice of NRE to tell me that the 15:38  to Norwich is running 5 minutes late...two weeks after it hap...

Movers, shakers and old friends

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A busy weekend of people news. According to Passenger Transport magazine, Elaine Holt , has left the National Express bid team after les...
Thursday, 1 November 2012

Confirmed - IEP twice as expensive as Pendolino

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Readers may have thought Eye's latest survey on IEP diagrammed vehicle costs was a little tongue in cheek. Sadly not, according to the...
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