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I love St Pancras International, BUT….. Monday June 10 2010
Categories: RAILBlog
I absolutely love St Pancras International. As a 21st century reworking of a 19th century Gothic masterpiece I think it’s a triumph of design and implementation and I always enjoy using it. A lot!
Network Rail ‘obstructive and incompetent’ says ORR – June 3 2010.
Categories: RAILBlog
I was at a rather odd press conference at the Office of Rail Regulation yesterday, at which ORR Chief Executive Bill Emery reported that in a ‘mixed year’ NR had been both obstructive and incompetent.
Is time running out for Network Rail? – Tuesday June 1 2010.
Categories: RAILBlog
Those who tune in regularly to my mumblings here will have seen Sunday’s post, prompted by the intriguing (and revealing) Sunday Times Business Section story about new Secretary of State for Transport Philip Hammond’s letter urging restraint on top executive NR bonuses this year.
New Government’s clear warning to Network Rail – Sunday May 30 2010
Categories: RAILBlog
New Con-Lib Secretary of State for Transport Philip Hammond has put a clear warning shot across Network Rail’s bows – the question is this: will the company take any notice?
Train operators in denial. What planet are they ON?! – Wednesday May 26 2010.
Categories: RAILBlog
It’s a press day and RAIL’s Richard Clinnick has just brought the office to a standstill (and not for the first time, but we won’t go into that now) by a truly gobsmacking exchange with a train operator ‘somewhere in England.’
First meeting with new Secretary of State – May 14 2014
Categories: RAILBlog
So, there I was, yesterday, on Taunton station, mulling over that I now had to ‘start again’ getting to know a new, and (to me) completely unknown Secretary of State for Transport - when my mobile buzzed.
Unbelievably complacent. Unbelievably lucky – Wednesday May 12 2010
Categories: RAILBlog
I defy you to watch this 'lucky escape' video and not wince in horror.
Please don’t forget to vote! – May 6 2010
Categories: RAILBlog
It’s nowt to do with me how you vote, and vice versa…..but it’s really important that you do, in fact, drop by your polling station sometime today and excercise your franchise.
More level crossing madness – Tuesday May 4 2010.
Categories: RAILBlog
We recently had the scarcely credible incident in the UK where a lorry driver knowingly tried to barge through level crossing barriers as they were actually descending - and ended up being fined just £170 with three penalty points!
And today’s mystery question, is…. - Monday April 12 2010
Categories: RAILBlog
Which is the only major station in mainland Britain where you look down on the roof on all sides from the surrounding cityscape?
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