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Monday, 17 June 2013

Swiss show the path to Innovation

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Good news for fans of cuckoo clocks! The Engineering Innovation Team are looking for new ideas but this one from Switzerland shows what the ...

Railway Garden Competition - Manchester Piccadilly

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This from 142013... A very pleasant spot of growth alongside plaform 13.

Railway Khazi Watch - Jeremy Corbyn MP!

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This from Richard Hebditch of the Campaign for Better Transport ... Given Eye's occasional interest in toilets on the network, thought...

ORR Draft Determination - Word Cloud

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The story of a pole - McNulty cost creep explained

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This from Citizen Smith... Once there was a mirror on a pole on a platform. Then bits of it were painted yellow, then a small fence was put ...

Railway Khazi Watch - Waterloo

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This from the Hammer Man... Seemingly the 'newly refurbished' cludgies at Waterloo (all puns intended) don't even offer you...
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...
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