This from Oliver Cromwell...
All
lights on Platform 3 at Peterborough station seem to be left on 24
hours a day.
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This from Keolis...
Keolis UK appoints first chief financial officer
UK public transport operator, Keolis UK, has appointed David Lowrie
as its new Chief Financial Officer, to support its growing presence in
the UK.
David moves into this newly created role with over 20 years of
commercial experience including several high profile posts within the
UK rail sector.
From an early career at KPMG and Powell Duffryn, he joined Prism
Rail PLC as Group Financial Controller. He has since held a number of
director level positions including Group Finance and Commercial
Development Director at the Grand Central Group.
Very good, carry on.
This from Citizen Smith...
...was this part of the grand plan or was it supposed to be in the right place first time round?
New track in place of old centre road for soon to be moved platform 7. I think.
Eye congratulates the Press Officer Scotland for First UK Bus!
Two suggestions.
In the first instance probably best not to send out a doco with tracked changes visible.
And secondly, don't then panic and send an email to all those you originally blind copied but this time listing all of them in the 'To' field.
This tends to show the extent of the original c0ck-up and more importantly adds to your discomfort...
No matter - we've all done it, once!
Of course everyone will 'ignore the last e-mail' and look forward to the 'statement' that 'will be issued by Chelsea... at 2p. today'.
Meanwhile, Eye hopes the communications around depot restructuring in the Midlands and South East are going to plan?
UPDATE: This from Nameless Bus Industry Journalist...
I received the said missive from First UK Bus, but noted that the actual media holding statement has just arrived from Chelsea at 15:13 rather than the promised '2p.'
Good to see First UK Bus are on top of punctuality!!
This from Messrs Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub...
This from the Wicked Weaver...
Gateway to the National Forest (or so it says)?
This from a Dr Gloucester...
I hope you enjoy the following specimen, which was spotted recently at the aptly named Forest Hill station:
This from MC Hammer...
Thought you might be interested in having a sneak preview of HS2 rolling stock.
Apparently it has been designed specifically with the IoD, IEA, UKIP, John Bercow and the Chilterns in mind.
This apparently sent from Samsung Tablet...
This via the Beeb with a bowler tip to @PaulCliftonBBC...
A brilliant side by side view of London to Brighton in 1953, 1983 and 2013:
Paul Clifton's report can be found here.
Good effort.
So today the Institute of Directors came out against HS2.
Don't forget to cancel your IoD membership in protest (shurely 'sign up as many people as possible to overturn this guff'! Ed)
Perhaps timely, therefore, to publish this article that appeared in Passenger Transport on the 2nd August...
This from Just for Stu...
Here is the Metro leaflet for the Leeds Festival.
Note the stern injunction about mud and boarding trains:
Sources suggesting that Railcare may have come out of administration.
New owners believed to be Knorr Bremse.
Awaiting details of implications for Wolverton and Springburn...
UPDATE: This from ITV...
Rail maintenance firm Railcare has been sold to Knorr-Bremse Rail
Systems, securing two UK sites and more than 200 jobs, said
administrators BDO.
UPDATE: This from Knorr-Bremse...
Knorr-Bremse Acquires Railcare Business
Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) Limited has acquired the rail vehicle component and overhaul business of Railcare.
The acquisition sees the UK Company of the global Knorr-Bremse Group taking over the Railcare operational sites at both Springburn in Glasgow and at Wolverton near Milton Keynes.
Following the acquisition Knorr-Bremse has formed a new company called Knorr-Bremse RailServices (UK) Limited. This company now joins the three other established Knorr-Bremse Rail Group operations in the UK. Located at Melksham in Wiltshire is the UK engineering and manufacturing headquarters, at nearby Corsham is a satellite precision machining operation and at Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire, Knorr-Bremse operates a specialist HVAC facility.
Knorr-Bremse RailServices (UK) Limited will be fully supported by Knorr-Bremse UK but will operate as a specialist company with its own identity. The company will continue to offer customers its previous portfolio of services and remain fully focused on train maintenance and repair.
Paul Goodhand, Managing Director of Knorr-Bremse in the UK commenting on the acquisition of Railcare said, “We are delighted to welcome Railcare into the Knorr-Bremse family of companies based here in the UK. My team and I in the UK and the Executive Board of Knorr-Bremse are committed to the future success of Knorr-Bremse RailServices (UK) Limited. We see Knorr-Bremse RailServices operations developing and expanding in the future in what we view as a dynamic area of rail operations with much potential. Railcare currently has many skilled and experienced individuals working at both its sites, in vehicle overhaul and repair but also in specialist incident repair and logistics. We believe that with the support of Knorr-Bremse, both in terms of solid financial investment and in process and management experience and support, we will, together with the existing team, be able to create a strong, new company. Our vision for Knorr-Bremse RailServices (UK) Limited is to create a company which supports customers in keeping their trains running through offering them an outstanding range of quality train maintenance and repair specialist services going forward.”
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