Showing posts with label DfT not at all DafT and in fact bon oeufs tout circulaire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DfT not at all DafT and in fact bon oeufs tout circulaire. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 March 2014

An end to Asymetric Warfare?

This from the Derbyshire Mafia...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en-gb"><p>Another high profile <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Derby175&src=hash">#Derby175</a> supporter? <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilipRutnam">@PhilipRutnam</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidHorne">@DavidHorne</a> outside <a href="https://twitter.com/EMTrains">@EMTrains</a> Derby station today! <a href="http://t.co/vJEBfaebX2">pic.twitter.com/vJEBfaebX2</a></p>— The Fact Compiler (@TheFactCompiler) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheFactCompiler/statuses/446992318093340672">March 21, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

And this from no less a person than the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport! 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en-gb"><p>Great visit this morning to <a href="https://twitter.com/EMTrains">@EMTrains</a> cab ride London to Derby to see line upgrade 125mph & great train availability achieved at Etches Pk</p>— Philip Rutnam (@PhilipRutnam) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilipRutnam/statuses/447002466740363264">March 21, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Followed by: 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en-gb"><p>Stayed Derby to meet world's greatest cluster rail supply chain, like expert engineering firm RVEL, Derby & Derbys Rail Forum, Porterbrook</p>— Philip Rutnam (@PhilipRutnam) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilipRutnam/statuses/447004761783795712">March 21, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That is probably all! ;-)

Saturday, 30 November 2013

All bets are ons for a unified railway

The Department for Transport, a clarification...

Regular readers may have gained the impression that Railway Eye has less than the very highest regard for the Permanent Secretary and team at the Department for Transport.

Nothing could be further from the truth!


Headlines such as You're all bloody useless!, Marsham Street couldn't organise a soiree in a brewery! and Fire the lot of them! were merely motivational posts, designed to shine a light upon the intellectual powerhouse and strategic acumen that resides in Great Minster House.

In fact Eye would go further and say that the very best possible outcome for the railway would be for Philip Rutnam to have direct oversight of both infrastructure and operators, so that the entire industry can face in one direction, led by a single guiding mind.

In Eye's view this is a statistical certainty and cannot happen soon enough! (Will this do? Ed).