Thursday, 29 November 2012
Macquarie enters Rosco market
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This from Macquarie Macquarie Acquires Rolling Stock Business From Lloyds, Launches New Rail Business Macquarie Group has launched a new ra...
Siemens buy Invensys
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This from the Graun ... Engineering group Invensys shocked the City on Wednesday night when it sold its rail business to German rival Siemen...
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Dods tells it like it is!
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This, surprisingly, from the 'Tash of Dickie Davis... Trust you saw the influence of Freud in this recent email from Dods! Highlighted ...
RDG: They were only playing leapfrog!
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Exciting news from the latest minutes of the Rail Delivery Group ! ‘The working group continues to discuss how to help inform DfT’s res...
Grand Central abolishes Christmas!
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Oh dear. It looks like Grand Central is about to fail the Daily Mail test! The Arriva owned company is offering a ' Festive Timetabl...
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Armitt to National Express
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This from Sky News ... The former head of Network Rail, Sir John Armitt, is to become the new chairman of National Express, the bus and ra...
Ticket simplification explained
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This seen at St Pancras, with a bowler tip to @13milepost ... What could be simpler?
Will legal action delay Laidlaw report?
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This from the Daily Telegraph ... Kate Mingay, one of the three civil servants suspended over the West Coast rail bid fiasco, has filed lega...
Pointless signs - St Pancras
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Good to see that n anny is alive and well at St Pancras... Do we really need to treat passengers as if they are idiots?
Floodballs - Rail Freight to the rescue
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This from the Oxford Mail's flooding update page... Really?
Monday, 26 November 2012
Brown Review - update
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Interesting. Sources suggesting that Richard Brown was appointed directly by Patrick McLoughlin rather than being selected by Marsham Stre...
Friday, 23 November 2012
Eye goes soft in Dead Tree Media - Shocker
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A surprising encomium in the latest contribution to Passenger Transport published on the 16th November... The next edition of Passenge...
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Directive 91/440/EEC - Just fancy that!
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This from Reuters ... The European Union's Transport Commissioner wants rail companies to separate their passenger and freight train b...
First for the new Third Class
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This from Rover... Charging a first class fare for standing or squatting in the vestibule? Every penny counts! UPDATE: This from Chio...
Britain's Best Bridge Bashes - Bustitution
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This from BB... This is my particular favourite! Note the destination blind...
Pointless signs - Essex Road
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Monday, 19 November 2012
The Case of the Silent Committee
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Telegrammed by 221b Baker Street Mornin' Holmes. Good morning, Watson. I observe you have been reading Mr Samuel Laidlaw's initia...
Friday, 16 November 2012
DfT: An apology!
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Over recent years Eye may have given readers the erroneous impression that officials hadn't a clue about rolling stock procurement. He...
Pointless signs - Newport
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This from Chef Ellwood... This sign recently went up at the entrance to Newport station. A classic statement of the bleedin' obvious...
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Whitehall unveils new interwebby
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This from Henry Trumpet... A big welcome to Whitehall's brand spanking new interwebby - just gone live today! A single Whitehall we...
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