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Wednesday, 13 November 2013

DfT bashes the ROSCOs and adds to industry cost

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Someone evidently has a sense of humour at Rail Business Intelligence! The latest issue contains a report of a talk given to the Railway ...

Hammond Eggs - Sauce for the goose

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This from the Yorkshire Post : Shadow Transport Minister Lilian Greenwood said Ministers are so keen to re-privatise the route linking Lon...
Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Pointless signs - First Hull Trains

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This from IKB... Good news for all fans of gaspers! FHT have evidently relaxed the draconian restrictions on lighting-up in this carriag...

One foot in the dor?

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This from Dear, Dear, Dicky...   Tuning into Sky's brand new series on East Coast, my ears were audibly assaulted by some dulcet the...

Hammond Eggs - Standing up for passengers

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This from the Daily Mirror ... After a leak by rail union RMT, Transport Minister Stephen Hammond yesterday admitted bidders for the rail fr...
Monday, 11 November 2013

HS2 - Close but no cigar

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This from Biggles... No you fools, I said 'Alison' Munro!

Gibb transitions from poacher to gamekeeper

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So. A big Eye farewell to Chris Gibb, as he moves from Chief Operating Officer at Virgin to a Non-exec role at Network Rail.  With NR...

Moor Street Service of Remembrance

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This from a Mr Tony Miles... On Armistice Day I thought Eye readers might be interested to see picture of the West Midlands Railway Servic...

Silver Stump Watch - Euston

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This from the The Coneworker... Platform 1 Emergency escape, Euston.    Surely a hindrance to Escapees?
Friday, 8 November 2013

Burles to Greater Anglia

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So. Jamie Burles will be succeeding Ruud Haket as MD of Greater Anglia. Currently a bid director at parent company Abellio he will join th...

Engineering the Underground

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This, from the Institution of Civil Engineers, is very nice... Good effort.

Lest we forget

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With Remembrance Sunday almost upon us here are some photos of the new War Memorial at King's Cross station, unveiled on the 27th Octobe...
Thursday, 7 November 2013

Gideon signals panic in Tory marginals

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This from Norfolk Broads... Absolutely no panic in the Tory party about vulnerable seats in East Anglia. No siree, none at all. So what are ...
Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Can you put a value on Goodwill?

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Read it and weep. This from the Beeb yesterday ...   The minister overseeing the HS2 rail project has issued an official correction aft...

Hammond Eggs - On how not to hold a TOC to account

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Another gem from the minister for rail! Given as a written answer on the 4th November ... Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon, Conservative) It was...

Modern parables No94

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This from the Preacher... It is easier for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, than for a camel to pass through the lie of a needle...
Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Hammond Eggs - Woodhead dead

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This from Stephen Hammond of DfT... Written statement to Parliament: Woodhead tunnels ...In 2007 to 2008 ministers received many represe...

Remember, remember, the fifth of November

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Today we mark the anniversary of a significant event in our history.   A day when some crazed ideologues, led by a deranged individual, ent...
Monday, 4 November 2013

TSSA Exec ushers in austerity Christmas

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Here's a tale to warm the heart of every industry Scrooge. The TSSA's Executive Committee Report for October records the followin...

Sun rises on talking shop as Ministers dodge talking tough!

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A quite extra-ordinary release from DfT on Friday! It began: Strengthening Britain’s train-building industry   The creation of a new f...
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