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Wednesday, 20 March 2013

HMQ celebrates 150 as LUL plans for more!

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Good to see H er Majesty the Queen celebrating 150 years of London's Underground! Happily HMQ appears in rude health aboard the Derb...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Silver Stump Watch - Manchester Piccadilly

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This from Depot Master...   Aww! The 'new arrival'!! All say 'Ah, hasn't he got the looks of his father!!!' ...

ORR parks tanks on RDG's lawn

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Good news for fans of needless duplication on the railway! This from the ORR and DfT : ORR and DfT recognise that more can be done to impr...
Monday, 18 March 2013

Pointless signs - Farringdon

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Baker prepares for opposition!

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Good to see Norm preparing for life outside of Parliament in 2015. This from the Beeb ... Junior Transport Minister Norman Baker has rel...

Wise words from Patrick McLoughlin

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This from a DfT press release today...   "Pointless signs blot our landscape!" Indeed! Alas the remedies proposed by the DfT...
Friday, 15 March 2013

China in great leap forward!

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This from Trailer Second... It’s not often that China shows the political way ahead, but this one’s a winner . Not only are we as an industr...

How not to recover a train!

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Eye is late to this , so a bowler tip to a Mr Frank Spencer... Ah, time for plan B .

Chemin de fer Barbie!

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LinkedIn is truly a wonderous thing! A quick perusa l today reveal s that Elaine Holt is now ' UK Rail Franchise Director at Ratp Dev...
Thursday, 14 March 2013

Wasted Waiting Shelters - Derby

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This from Derbyshire Lad... This has been like this for months.
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!
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