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Saturday, 30 November 2013

All bets are ons for a unified railway

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The Department for Transport, a clarification... Regular readers may have gained the impression that Railway Eye has less than the very high...
Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Hammond Eggs - I've got a little secret

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As Leonard Cohen used to sing: I've got a little secret! A tune evidently close to the heart of Eye favourite Stephen 'Gone-native...
Tuesday, 26 November 2013

IEA's Wellings boots commuters off seats

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The friend of railway users across the nation has offered its latest wheeze to delight regular travellers. Not content with providing spur...
Monday, 25 November 2013

HS2 opponents converted... possibly

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Good news for fans of the new North - South Railway. Today's small demonstration in Parliament Square against the vital project even w...

Churchill and HS2 - a lesson in brevity

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So. The Government has published the HS2 Bill for phase 1 of the new North - South Railway. According to the National Farmers Union ... ...

Pointless signs - EMT cl153

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This apparently from Barrett Homes... Noted on an East Midlands Trains Class 153 Sandbox Lid at Lincoln earlier this year.  Why woul...

Siemens confirms Deutschland über alles!

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This from Siemens... In an email headed: Change of location for Siemens plc's Rail Systems Division from Westminster to Euston , we di...

Scotrail on making an impression

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This from Flora McDonald...   From the ScotRail draft ITT: "The train should contain appropriate tourist information, in an ambience t...
Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Mediaballs - Metro on Chester

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This from the Metro , referring to the buffer shunt at Chester today ... The 10.10am service from London Euston completely failed to stop ...

Transport Scotland inventibold new lingua - deep joy

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This from The Man by the Photocopier...   So Transport Scotland have unveiled their exciting plans for the next ScotRail franchise! ...

Pointless signs - Kiveton Park

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This from a Mr Norman Collier...   Pointless and USELESS signs! This is on the gate to the UP platform - needless to say the pho...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013

What has privatisation ever done for us...

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The Fact Compiler's latest column in Passenger Transport published on the 15th November... The next edition of Passenger Tra...
Monday, 18 November 2013

Just 120 seconds to deliver a 7 day railway

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This from a Mr Antonio Kilometer...   From Southern’s press release last week about its winter timetable...  “ There are two last Mond...

HS1 does its very best to drive freight from rail

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This from Rich Tea...   As HS1 consult on increasing freight track charges by some 450% their owners, Ontario Teacher ’ s Pension Fund, h...

Creagh outlines Labour Transport priorities

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This from the Grauniad ... Creagh has previously refused to rule out renationalisation of UK railways, and said the franchising model has...

Deep Alliance - the railway at prayer

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An Eye spy in Wiltshire has sent the following intriguing image. Pictured deep in meditation is SWT/Wessex Route supremo Tim Shoveller, af...
Friday, 15 November 2013

The last word on Pacers...

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This from the Shadow Minister for Transport... A bus pretending to be a train. & not one of @alextrentbarton 's classy ones. But ...

RDG disconnected from the industry it 'leads'?

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This was just asking for trouble. Earlier this week Transport Minister Baroness Kramer observed that dumping raw effluent on the tracks wa...
Thursday, 14 November 2013

DRS Class 68 on test

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This from @Julog90 ... I've come across this video of a DRS Class 68 on test at Albuixech (Valencia). UPDATE: This from the Clagma...

Wattage Watch - Peterbrough again...

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This from Ricketrescuer...   Not just the platform lights at Peterborough.     These worksite lights are merrily burning away ...
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