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Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Silver Stump Watch - Liverpool Street

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This from Greg and Tonic... All of these bollards are at the top of sets of steps, the 4 in the first 2 pictures are wedged between the “...

Silver Stump Watch - York

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This from the Albatross... What about this little beauty that’s appeared at York – Big Bold and Not Beautiful – one can only assume t...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Dear National News Editors...

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Bad news for lazy hacks across the land! Apparently abroad is also completely useless at dealing with snow. An honourable mention to Her...

Crossrail concession competition launched

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Good news for fans of accountable and properly managed rail services! Oh and also for all those hugely expensive bid teams currently twidd...
Friday, 8 March 2013

Piling drill burst onto Moorgate line

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This unbelievable image was tweeted by @FirstCC this afternoon... According to FCC the driver of the train in the picture, which was ...

Silver Stump Watch - Fenchurch Street

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This with a bowler tip to @AMonkster ... A noble Silver Stump defending the Fenchurch Place stairs.

Could Hatfield/Stainforth have been avoided?

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The Fact Compiler's latest column in Passenger Transport published on the 1st March... The next edition of Passenger Transport...
Thursday, 7 March 2013

Celebration of InterCity & Freightliner on Monday!

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This from the Campaign for Better Transport... The CBT is hosting our first Back on Track: Beeching 50 Years On event at the Science Muse...

Scrap Metal Dealers Act nets first victim!

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Oh dear. The Soi Disant ' Veteran Observer ' has apparently been allowed near the railway. Alas, judging from this picture he has br...

Pointless signs - Liverpool Street (LUL)

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This from the Ward Room... Really?  Stanstead, near Long Melford in Suffolk?  Surely not!

New Steam operator enters market

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Exciting news for fans of kettles! Devon and Cornwall Railway have operated their first steam train on the national network and completely...
Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Silver Stump Watch - the new King's Cross

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This from GTRFN Inc... Stretching as far as the Eye can see... Presumably, some of these are removable, for maintenance-vehicle acces...

Scribble in haste, repent at leisure

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Here's a blast from the past! This leader column appeared in the Grauniad way back in 2006... "British trains may be slow and ...

The Case of the Missing Question

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This from our man at 221b Baker Street... Mornin' Holmes, have you seen the Public Accounts Committee report on the Intercity West...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Number Crunching - The price of safety

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This, surprisingly, from the late Frankie Howerd.. Woe, woe and thrice woe! According to the latest edition of RAIL which, for non-subs...
Monday, 4 March 2013

Pointless sign - Kettering

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This from The Ninja... Not sure if this is pointless, pointed or poignant!

Pointless signs - Peterborough

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UPDATE: This from the Bois from Basil... Lots of locally-based Polish agricultural labourers - and other Poles - use Peterborough station...
Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Launch event for Women in Rail

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Regular readers of Eye and Passenger Transport magazine may recall the Fact Compiler lamenting the paucity of ladies in senior railway mana...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013

ABC circulation figures - An editor writes...

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Dear Fact Compiler... Following on your round-up of ABC figures a week or two back, a quick note to let you know that Rail Technolog...

Silver Stump Watch - Reading doomed

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This from Concerned of Caversham... Seems that NR are planning to deploy an impressive array of ' nad-busters ' at Reading: ...
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