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Friday, 26 April 2013

Soup proves popular in engineering world

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Good news for fans of Mk3s! This from the Railway Gazette : Porterbrook Leasing has awarded Railcare a £5m contract to undertake the C6 sche...

RDG announces first Associate Members

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The Rail Delivery Group has published the minutes of its 22nd April meeting. It contains a list of the first organisations to be accepted a...
Thursday, 25 April 2013

Railway Khazi Watch - NRM Workshops

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Time for an exciting new Eye feature - Railway Khazi Watch! Our first entry is via the Hammer Man... I found this sign in the salubrious tra...

In war and peace we serve... The Book!

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A new tome from Eye favourite Michael Williams is to be published on the 13th May. Steaming to Victory tells the tale of how Britain'...

Burns Lite - Stabbing your own TOC in the back

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Good to see Simon Burns MP acknowledging the herculean efforts of his own employees! Despite East Coast operating on a railway that last rec...

Freighties make the case!

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Bad news for fans of good Route MDs! Dyan Crowther, MD of NR's LNW Route, confirmed at yesterday's meeting of the Rail Freight Gro...

Franchising process explained!

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Good to see that the DfT is making the franchising process as simple as possible! Hope that's clear then.
Thursday, 18 April 2013

Burns Lite on Cumbrian services

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This from Captain Deltic... There's nothing like a straight answer to a straight question. This reply from Simon Burns on the 16th Apr...

Pointless signs - Northern Class 150

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This from a Mr 12x12... Good news for all you budding DIY surgeons in the North!
Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Pointless signs - Ashford International

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This from Simon... Spotted in the 'waiting room' on P5/6 at Ashford international.  There only one door in or out .
Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Derby mafia storm the House!

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Exciting news from the Home of the Railway Industry! The Derby and Derbyshire Rail Forum descended en-masse upon the House of Commons yest...

SWT struggles with reliability - Shocker!

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This from South West Trains... PASSENGERS TO BENEFIT FROM £40 MILLION INVESTMENT IN SOUTH WEST TRAINS CLASS 455 FLEET Further improvemen...

ATOC's loss is HS2's gain!

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Good news from under pressure HS2 Ltd! ATOC's very own 'Mr Smooth' has been poached to join the company building Britain's...
Saturday, 13 April 2013

Ed Balls!

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This from Ed Balls, via twitter... Sorry... But this is getting really weird.. RT @ felicitymorse : Ed Balls makes it onto a train sign ...
Friday, 12 April 2013

NR's Freight Director - a revolving door?

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Much delight amongst the Freighties! It rather looks as if Tim Robinson, NR's Freight Director, has been appointed to the vacant Susse...

Oh, Mr Horne, lets have a vada at your entrees!

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Possibly the best picture on the internet you will see today!   And all in a good cause. The proceeds from sales of EMT breakfasts t...

Pointless signs - Waterloo Millenium Edition

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Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Women in Rail - launches with long queues!

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This from Virginia Water... Today, 200 industry leaders attended the launch event of Women In Rail . WiR is a new initiative that aims to ...

Eurostar - the crumbling edge of quality

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Amidst all the excitement of franchising... Perhaps something that Eurostar's Chairman might want to get to grips with?

Pointless signs - Blackfriars

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