Manners maketh the man

This just in from 'William of Wykham'...

Might I use Railway Eye to publicise a cause very close to my heart?

I wonder if I am alone in noticing the increasingly hectoring tone adopted by much modern railway signage.

As an example here is a sign I photographed recently at Leicester.


The use of the word 'please' costs nothing and can transform the way a notice reads from an order into a request.

Which is so much nicer if you've just spent a fortune to travel by train.

So please can we see the return of the word 'please' in railway signage.

Thank you.

And thank you William, the Eye is only too pleased to help.

Sex, religion, politics and railways

The Fact Compiler likes to keep readers abreast of the doings of the great and the good.

For instance next Wednesday will finally see Secretary of State for Transport Ruth Kelly hold her long promised cocktail party for industry hacks.


The "do", which has been cancelled twice before, has been meticulously planned down to the last detail.

But to be on the safe side Roger Ford has kindly agreed not to broach the subject of railways unless Ruth does so first.