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Friday, 14 April 2017

Eye salutes Jeremy Corbyn!

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The Labour Party leader visited Wabtec in Doncaster yesterday. Wabtec in the UK, as any ful kno, is one of the key players in rolling stoc...
Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Small glasses being raised in the Shire

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Lots of chatter about Siemens and Bombardier merging. Eye recommends not holding your breath, it will be... complicated . Meanwhile, hal...

Tornado does the ton

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Good news for fans of Kettles! A couple of Eye co-respondents (sic) have sent through some images of last night's Tornado test run and...
Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Shaken and stirred: Tonkin, Pitt and Rollin...

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A quick round up of new appointments in today's glorious railway. David Tonkin , fresh from being Acting General Manager of the Railwa...

A little something for Easter Week

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Those of you looking to round-off the Easter week may be interested in the below. The Epping Ongar Railway is running a real ale train on ...
Monday, 10 April 2017

Bi-modes not necessarily the answer...

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Good news for fans of electrification! This from the Sunday Times , yesterday.... "The Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOS...

Local Government elections and Purdah

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Purdah for the May local government elections starts on the 13th April. From the House of Commons Library : " The term ‘purdah’ is i...
Saturday, 8 April 2017

May a thousand plandampfs bloom!

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This from Lella Lombardi... Great news for petrolheads as Transport Minister Andrew Jones announces plans to allow motor racing on urban ...
Friday, 7 April 2017

Power PR to new First/MTR LSWR franchise

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Apparently Southern have misplaced Jane Lee, the PR of choice for third-rail networks! No matter. Eye understands that First/MTR have sn...

TfL getting a bit tetchy on Twitter...

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Good point and well made... Leave him bruv, he ain't wurff it!
Thursday, 6 April 2017

Her Majesty's Chief Railway Inspector invites DOO comments!

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This from Ian Prosser, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Railways; and director, railway safety . ORR has published the Principles for ...

First/MTR brand for South Western emerges?

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After 94 years of lobbying... pre-grouping companies are back! Back in the day of course, the livery was Dark Brown and Salmon Pink. ...
Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Railway investment strategies explained...

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This from Kaizen... Featured as the Daily Telegraph’s Fund of the Week in last Saturday's investment feature was John Laing Infrastruc...

Maynard on DfT 'effective governance' of Network Rail

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This written answer given by Paul Maynard yesterday : John Redwood (Wokingham) : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost ...

Lookalike - 'Time on their hands' edition...

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This from the Yorkshire Post ... " Engineering services group Renew Holdings said the chief executive of transport group Go-Ahead has...
Monday, 3 April 2017

Southern drivers say 'No' to ASLEF - Again

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This from ASLEF ... ASLEF drivers have rejected a proposed resolution to the long-running dispute with Southern Rail. The following question...

Greater Anglia shows off new train designs

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Greater Anglia has posted images of its new Stadler and Bombardier trains. The new 'Flirt' trains will " operate on InterC...
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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