Seen Around

Saturday 30th May 2026 Another packed end-of-month miscellany spotted on my travels begins with a couple of train style launches as we all know how much rail PR people love a launch …. GBR’s new livery for Southern and South Western … as do Ministers, so both Heidi Alexander and Lord Hendy were out and about last week launching the first two trains to wear the controversial GBR livery. First up was Secretary of State Alexander in Brighton Station on Thursday morning last week telling us how GBR will see “more drivers, more frequent services and cleaner toilets” as well as an all important more reliable service. Quite why this has had to wait for the launch of a new livery seeing how the DfT has been controlling every minutia of the GTR contract for the last 11 years is a bit of a puzzle but let’s be positive and look forward to that long list of things “that don’t look right” finally being SORTED. The next day, last Friday, saw Lord Hendy doing the same in front of cheering staff on…