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Thursday, 26 September 2013

DfT issues ITTs for LTS and Thameslink 3000

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This from the DfT ...   The first invitation to tenders have been published by DfT since launch of a new rail franchising schedule. ...

Pointless signs - York

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This from @VernonBaseley ... They're below you!

Railway Garden Competition - Welwyn Garden City

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A word on matrix management

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As a service to the industry Eye thought it timely to revisit the Laidlaw Inquiry findings into the ICWC debacle: Deficiencies in organis...
Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Adonis in Brighton - Shocker

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Eye was lamenting the silence from Andrew Adonis earlier this week, when Ed Balls put the boot into HS2. Where was Lord Adonis, our very o...

Higgins to HS2 - Reactions

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So farewell to both Doug and Clinton Leeks. Today's announcement is perhaps a tacit admission that HS2 was losing both the PR battle ...

Higgins to HS2 - the fight back begins!

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This from HS2 and Network Rail... NEW CHAIR OF HS2 ANNOUNCED Doug Oakervee has announced today that he will be standing down as Chairman o...

Silver Stump Watch - Liverpool St in mufti

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This from Tiny Sleigh... Why?

Labour plans ensure Pacers have a long future?

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So. This is Ed Miliband's big idea!   " The next Labour government will freeze gas and electricity prices until the start of 2017...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

The elephant in the room at Labour's Party Conference

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Cynics might be tempted to suggest that Ed Balls wobble on HS2 is a smoke-screen for the non-debate of the year. According to LabourList ...
Monday, 23 September 2013

New Chairman of HS2 announced!

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This from Jeanne d'Arc de Triomphe...   Attendees at Thursday's National Rail Awards were treated to a scoop in the event programm...

Scotrail to run Manchester rail services - Shocker

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This from the Vice Marshall...   A small presentational error at Thursday's Greengauge 21 HS2 conference in Birmingham, when the Scott...

HS2balls, or 'The Silence of the Lords'

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Westminster and Brighton alight today with suggestions that Labour is wobbling on HS2 Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said in his set piece con...

RMT unveils new negotiation tool - Shocker

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This courtesy of @RMTLondon ... No surprises there then!

Railway Garden Competition - Victoria

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This from Tiny Sleigh... Note the bush growing on the station roof which compliments this platform 8 pastoral idyll.

HS2 - the fight back begins...

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The Fact Compiler's latest column in Passenger Transport published on the 13th September... The next edition of Passenger T...
Thursday, 19 September 2013

Railway Garden Competition - Crossmyloof

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This from The Raver... This has to be the winner!

RSSB announces new CEO

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This from RSSB... RSSB announces new Chief Executive RSSB has announced that Chris Fenton, formerly Director of Marketing and Strategy at ...

First for listening to Shadow Ministers

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Is Harriet Harman a regular user of First TransPennine Express?   Commenting on the Newsnight presenter's decision to sport a beard Ha...
Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Pointless signs - Manchester Airport

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This from the Manxman...   Spotted at Manchester Airport Station last week. What must arriving visitors make of this (once they ...
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