Dominating transport debates in the Upper House are the feared Railway Peers, masters of the Parliamentary Question.
For some time these latter day Marcher Lords, roaming the wasteland between Government and Railways, have been looking for an opponent worthy of their steel.
So hapless is the Government's Spokesmen in the Lords, Lord Bassum of Brighton, that the Railway Peers have started feeling sorry for him, as DafT sends him into battle with yet another feeble brief.
But presumably, new Rail Minister, Lord Adonis will now be press ganged into delivering these cods of wallop.