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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The east coast line's fortunes have been revived since it passed from National Express to state ownership, raising hopes of a return to network integration last seen in the days of British Rail Lord Adonis , the transport secretary, has big plans for Britain's largest rail franchise. Asked by the Observer last week if he was considering changes to the government-owned East Coast service, he said:...
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
POOR old Central Station. One of the official grot-spots of the railway network, according to a report that went straight to Transport Secretary Lord Adonis this week.
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Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Exciting news from Labour Party HQ in Victoria Street! Eye understands that following the success of Transport secretary Lord Adonis' whirlwind one-day whistle stop tour of England's 10 worst stations in Labour constituencies, the party's Election 'Grid' now includes the following: Andy Burnam, Secretary of State for Health to visit the top 10 hospitals...
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Constantly Furious (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A nation rejoiced yesterday when Lord Adonis announced the best news heard on these shores since the ending of World War II Grown men wept with happiness when they heard that no less ten railway stations in England are to modernised. Imagine that. No less than 50 million pounds (of our money, of course) is to be spent to carry out improvements. Fifty million quid? A drop in the ocean compared
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Parlez~me~'n~Tory (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Today is the Queen’s Speech. Quite possibly the most newsworthy item of the day but I sincerely doubt it. Many tomes will be written today and in the future about the cynical content of the speech and how it is in effect a pre-manifesto manifesto so I don’t for one minute propose to add to that [...]
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The Digerati Peninsula (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
I’m not sure what’s funnier in this article, the description with the top image (’Clapham Junction could be twinned with the outer circle of hell’) or the fact that the transport secretary is called Lord Adonis.
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Moreton and Saughall Massie Matters (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Earlier this evening I travelled over to Central Station to meet with colleagues from Merseytravel and Merseyrail to welcome Lord Adonis, Secretary of State for Transport. Lord Adonis will today announce crucial funding to improve Liverpool’s Central Station after it was named one of the worst in the country. The station will share £50m that is [...]
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Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Poor old DafT haven't really got their heads round Social Media yet. The following two twitter posts have just emerged from slumbering Marsham Street . Almost 12 hours after Lord Adonis started blogging his Pilgrimage of Grice.
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Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Lord Adonis must be rejoicing that he is no longer in the Department for Education and Skills. The LibDems are claiming that civil servants in the education sector have spent £10 million on first class rail fares over the last three years. According to the website of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers , shameless Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families...
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Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Has Lord Adonis his own headcode? Eye revealed yesterday that a spare train shadowed Adonis when he travelled to York on Saturday. Now we hear that the Pendolino on which he is currently travelling to Stockport was routed past two local trains after a track circuit failure outside Crewe. On the privatised railway all trains are equal but evidently some passengers are more equal than others! UPDATE:...
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Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Lord Adonis is blogging as he inspects shabby stations. Updates are being posted here . Whilst not quite up to the standard of Tom Harris MP or the twitterings of Sadiq Khan it's a noble effort (geddit!).
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Suitably Despairing (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Preston Station by Benkid77 via Wikimedia Commons It seems it's time to give the railway a good kicking again, with the news that the transport minister Lord Adonis is on a Grand Tour of Britain's worst train stations . Actually, there's not much point in me trying to big any of these stations up - it's quite clear that they're awful ( The Times has a slideshow here ) Here's the full Top 10 - or should...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The worst stations in the country are exposed today in an official roll-call of shame.
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Adam Smith Institute Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Compared to the banks, it's pretty small beer, but now the government has nationalised the east coast rail franchise, National Express has given up on it, and it has been excitingly re-named East Coast, and the equally excitingly, the transport minister Lord Adonis is now running it. Otherwise, it's the same timetable, prices and routes. This is, of course, exactly how rail franchising is supposed...
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Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
One for the timetable planners out there. Lord Adonis celebrated the start of nationalised East Coast Main Line by travelling to York on Saturday, aboard the 08:00 Kings Cross - Edinburgh ( 1S07) . He then returned from York to London at 11:00 aboard 1E06. Happily both journeys took place without incident. But better to be safe than sorry. As is evident from these two mysterious empty trains that also...
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