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Thursday, 3 October 2013

FGW gets extension but DfT omits the important numbers

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Good news for First Great Western! This from the Department for Transport: Franchising deal to boost services on Great Western Main Line (...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013

World's Greatest Living Transport Correspondent bests Beardie

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The results of this year's Ipsos MORI Survey of Transport Journalists have just been released. 73 hacks were polled, and amongst a wea...

Silver Stump Watch - King's Cross Square

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This from White Throat... I knew it was too good to last! The beautiful new King's Cross Square is the latest railway space to be bl...

DfT officials study their briefs... or something

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In between designing exciting new trains and micro-managing franchises officials at the DfT certainly like to keep their fingers on the puls...
Tuesday, 1 October 2013

That Eurostar 'private sector' bid for ICEC in full

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Of mere passing interest, no doubt.   A quick glance at wikipedia, here and here , reveals the following...   Eurostar International Li...

DfT makes commitment to legacy technology?

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Good news for historians of t'interweb! According to the Department for Transport ... The rail industry is to roll out high speed mo...

Haket signals departure to Keolis

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This from Ruud Haket, currently MD of Greater Anglia...   I’d like to tell you that I have accepted the offer of a new role as Chief Opera...
Monday, 30 September 2013

HS2 to offer cash back for each mile built - Shocker

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This from The Hoots-mon... According to the BBC on HS2: " Can a railway be worth £121m per mile? " Mere bagatelle! Consider th...

New Thameslink franchise learns lessons from ICWC fiasco

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This from Leo Pink... According to the Thamelink, Southern and Great Northern invitation to tender: Publicity The outcome of a rail franchis...

Cinders - you shall not go to the ball

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This from The 10 Cities... Eye favourite Beardie Branson hosted two weekends of parties this month - to thank Virgin Trains' employees f...

Eurostar to bring 'shabby-chic' to ECML?

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Good news for fans of the crumbled edge of quality! According to the Yorkshire Post ... CHANNEL Tunnel high-speed train company Eurostar...
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...
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