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Friday, 14 June 2013

Dunstone on HS2

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This from Cable.co.uk ...   Money from the HS2 scheme could be better spent on broadband, Sir Charles Dunstone has argued. Sir Charles ...

John Knox alive and well at Scotrail

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Good news for fans of the New Puritanism!  The McKilljoys of Scotrail have banned e-fags! According to The Herald ... SCOTRAIL has ba...
Thursday, 13 June 2013

Lookalike - In the Nightmare Garden

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Shopping the NR way!

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This from a Former NR Sleeper... Thought readers might enjoy this handy Network Rail guide to shopping. Simples!
Wednesday, 12 June 2013

ORR goes in for mystic accounting?

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This from Alecto... What a marvelous piece of fiddle factor in ORRs determination of Network Rail's net revenue requirement (p 29): ...

ORR back-tracks on Biomass charging

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This from the Rail Freight Group... Rail Freight Group (RFG) today welcomed the ORR’s decisions on freight charges announced as part of th...

Burns Lite - Seeing the light on DOR

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Has Simon Burns had a Damescene conversion? Regular readers of Eye will recall that Third Degree Burns recently described nationalised Eas...

ORR Draft Determination exposes inflation - Shocker!

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This from Captain Deltic... The Office of Rail Regulation's Draft Determination under Periodic Review 13  (PR13) published today occu...

Great Western franchise - DOR activated

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This from The Brothers ... RAIL UNION RMT revealed today that it has been officially notified of a rescue plan to bring in the publicly ow...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Pointless sign - Waterloo

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This from a Mr Lost the Will to Live... So where else might a balcony be then?
Monday, 10 June 2013

Veitch off to Upsidedown-land!

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So farewell Jon Veitch, the latest loss to the Dominions! After more than 26 years working on Britain's Railways Jon will be leaving the...

Pendocycle200 from Manchester to Euston

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This from the Pendocycle200 Team...   Virgin Trains staff at Manchester Piccadilly are organising a charity event in support of The Chri...

Railway Garden Competition - Norwich

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This via @NoddingDonkey ... Lawn mower required for recovery of these 158's at Norwich!
Friday, 7 June 2013

What's 'hundreds of millions of pounds' between friends?

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Good to see partnership is alive and well on the LNW Route! Apparently Beardie Rail is threatening to take NR to court over poor performan...

A threat to the NRM - time for an industry response?

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"A nation that forgets its past has no future." Wise words from Winston Churchill! So what are we to make of threats to the Na...
Thursday, 6 June 2013

National Express in vote rigging shocker!

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This from NatEx owned C2C... National Express train company c2c is backing Leanne Jarvis, daughter of train driver Dave, in the live final...

Harnessing the power of new media and the web

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They're a cheeky lot in Derby! This from RVEL - a nice little video package about a visit from Patrick McLoughlin on Monday. Whilst ...

New Rail Supply Chain Forum!

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This from George Ramshaw Curry... Given that one remit of the new and exciting DfT and BIS backed 'Rail Supply Chain Forum' is to: ...

Pointless signs - Victoria

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This with a bowler tip to @sinminkles via twitter... QR Codes - a solution in search of a problem?

Why uniform standards need to be standard...

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The Fact Compiler's latest column in Passenger Transport published on the 24th May... The next edition of Passenger Transpor...
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