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Sunday, 23 April 2017

Four trains celebrate UK railways

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Alas, not a kettle in sight! Think I must have the wrong location for this #fourtrains jolly- places everyone😉 no #Rail paparazzi anyw...
Friday, 21 April 2017

Let's parlez Franchise

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Picture the scene: A room somewhere near NW1: V:  Hola, estoy aqui para la entrevista. R:  Vous est dans le wrong chambre, mon old mate....
Thursday, 20 April 2017

HS2 gets a roasting at TSC

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A feisty session of the Transport Select Committee yesterday. The committee quizzed Grayling and Higgins on the latest developments at HS2,...

Supply Chain to fill Election gaps?

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Guido suggesting that the Conservatives may be shy sufficient candidates for the General Election. Ever keen to assist, Eye wonders wheth...
Wednesday, 19 April 2017

GE2017 - Rail and the Manifestos

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This from Mystic Maureen... As the nation leaps into action ready for yet another thrilling polling campaign ( Shurely "runs around s...

Rail Sector Deal - the PM offers some clues

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Word reaches Eye that the great and the good are meeting tonight to discuss what a Rail Sector Deal might look like. The original announceme...
Tuesday, 18 April 2017

New DG Rail - Who should it be?

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Time for an Exciting New Eye Poll! With Bernadette Kelly elevated to role of Permanent Secretary the search is on for a new Director Gener...

Kelly appointed as new DfT Permanent Secretary

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This from the DfT ... Bernadette Kelly has been appointed as the new Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport. This follows Phi...

Periodic Review 18 v Corporate Memory 0

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This from Gilbert Ratchett... Now that the Office of Rail Regulation has published the Initiation Notice for Periodic Review 2018, the pho...

General Election 2017 and Purdah

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Currently we are in Purdah for the 4th May local elections . If the PM secures her two thirds majority tomorrow for a General Election the...

General Election - 8th June 2017

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Subject to securing a two thirds majority in the Commons tomorrow, the PM proposes going to the country on the 8th June. Some quick though...
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...
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