Saturday, 1 April 2017
Exclusive: ECML tunnels to be opened by Private Sector
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Private sector to break Welwyn bottleneck Eye understands that Treasury is close to signing a significant deal on ECML capacity enhancemen...
Friday, 31 March 2017
Track renewals to be further hit in CP5?
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The Independent has published a piece that will further fuel concerns in the infrastructure supply chain. It quotes the following from an ...
Lookalike - 'Days of future past' edition
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RDG unveils radical plan for Lincolnshire services
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People of Immingham - rejoice! Those nice people at the RDG have promised you a significant uplift in services. According to the FT toda...
Roscos and RMT make unlikely bedfellows
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This from the Brothers! Anyone care to tell RMT the difference between classes 707 and 458?
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Silence of lambs as South Western fleets displaced
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This from from Daddy Warbucks... First MTR seem intriguingly reticent about the collateral damage from their new train bonanza for the Sou...
RIA ups its lobbying game
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New Railway Industry Association CEO Darren Caplan is making his mark. According to both Railnews and Railway Gazette International RIA ...
A couple of good causes for your attention...
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If you have a spare minute or two? Wolmar has asked that you consider signing this petition to have the provision of on-train defibrill...
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
CH2M pulls out of HS2 Phase 2b
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This from PA... #Breaking CH2M, handed £170m deal to develop Phase 2b of HS2, pulls out of that section due to "protracted delays...
DfT DG for HS2 departs for Oxford
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David Prout off to the Dreaming Spires Not a great week for HS2.
And so it begins...
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The Article 50 letter. #Brexit pic.twitter.com/SO5R5BTvhw — Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) 29 March 2017
HS2 abandons classic compatible fleet - shocker
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Welcome to the world of HS2 Nuspeak! Gone is the fuddy duddy old fashioned term "classic compatible'. In comes the snappy and e...
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
Railfreight and Article 50
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This from Hildegard of the Vinzgau... As Parliament triggers Article 50, and starts the process of Brexit, let's remember that our ...
Mystic Wolmar on rolling stock procurement
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This from Henry Hectare... In the past Eye has been somewhat critical of a certain Mr Kipling's role in the procurement of new rolling...
ORR fires starting gun on PR18
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The ORR has issued a review initiation notice beginning the statutory process for the periodic review. In a note sent yesterday to interes...
Who will be the new MD of First/MTR SWT?
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Time for an exciting Eye poll! Using your skills and judgement select who is most likely to be new MD of First MTR South Western Trains. ...
Monday, 27 March 2017
Lookalike: 'What a lovely day' edition
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First & MTR take South Western
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This from the DfT , in what is a remarkably scrappy press release... "And today (27 March 2017) we can announce that First MTR So...
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
HS2 and UCR 2016
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Not a good week for HS2. The Guido Fawkes website is running a number of articles on the project; suggesting that a crisis board meeting ...
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Brothers field nag in The National
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This from The Liverpool Echo ... " Merseyrail will be hit by a 24 hour strike on April 8 - the day of the Grand National. " Me...
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