Wednesday, 2 August 2017
RSSB goes all Virtual Reality
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What sort of fresh hell is this? RSSB's 2017/18 Business Plan eschews old fashioned nonsense like photographs for vibrant avatar styl...
Railway Garden Competition - Sapperton Tunnel
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This from The Duke... The p-way near Sapperton Tunnel on the Swindon Gloucester line. Surely GWEP hasn't sucked all the money...
Exciting news ahead of BTP merger into Police Scotland
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This from The Scotsman ... Officers have begun leaving the British Transport Police ahead of its controversial integration into Police Scot...
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Nicky Morgan shoots two ministers!
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Interesting fact! Nicky Morgan was tasked by the last Government with assembling views from East Midlands MPs on the new EMT franchise. ...
Rail minister races to reassure the Supply Chain!
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Good to see that the art of the non-answer is alive and kicking in the Department for Transport. Or so it seems judging from this clutch o...
Hayes stands up to be counted
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This from the Catholic Herald ! John Hayes, who is Minister of State at the Department of Transport, was speaking at an event organised by...
Infernal combustion at the heart of government
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So that nice Mr Gove has decided that diesel cars will be phased out by 2040. Meanwhile that nice Mr Grayling has decided to 'phase ou...
Monday, 24 July 2017
Railway Garden Competition - Wimbledon
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This from a Mr Greg Tingey... Tastefully placed between the NR & LU tracks.
Crossrail 2 announce like 'cup of cold sick' in North
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Righteous fury from elected Northern Mayors over Grayling's backing for Crossrail 2 today: On Friday, Tories say they can't affor...
RSG and RDG merge
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This from the Rail Delivery and Rail Supply Groups... WORKING TOGETHER – NEW PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN RAIL SUPPLY GROUP AND RAIL DELIVERY GROUP...
Greening rides to rescue of the railway!
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Good news for the railway via Justine Greening! The equalities minister has announced that those over a certain age will be able to self d...
Friday, 21 July 2017
Beacon Rail buys Voyager fleets
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This from Beacon Rail... Beacon Rail Leasing, a leading Pan-European rolling stock lessor, is pleased to announce that it completed the ac...
Thursday, 20 July 2017
Sofa broken and HLOS missing
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Well, well, well! An UnHLOS, no enhancements and no Statement of Funds Available ! initial Statement of Funds Available (SoFA), which...
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
How we used to live...
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This from the 14th March debate in the Lords on GWML Electrification ... Reproduced now, only because My Lord Bradshaw made such an elegan...
NR adopts the Country Mile
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This from a Mr Weights and Measures... According to the Network Rail Rail press release on the annual report and accounts: A record £3....
A masterclass in avoiding the question...
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This from last Thursday's Electrification debate ... Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower) (Lab) What steps he is taking to electrify the rail net...
ORR explains benefits of railway disaggregation...
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This from William Huskisson... From ORR's Annual Health & Safety Report of Performance on Britain's railways 2016-17: Natio...
Blockheaded blockades - Huddersfield
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This from Snapper... There's never a good time to close a railway for engineering works, but one does wonder if someone looked at an e...
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Shaken and stirred: Paul Francis
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This from the Rail Forum... Announcement from Rail Forum chair, Paul Francis : "Some of you may be aware that I have announced my fo...
Right Time Departure Please!
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This from Thebel Tolzforze... A small reminder, for anyone who might be interested? Under the terms of the Railways Act 2005: the DfT ha...
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