This from Rev E Gunter... Much excitement over on the twitter-snore , following rumours that Hitachi are fitting speed limiters to all 800 s...

This, from Hitachi,  is impressive.. . We're sorry - and we will do better. Karen Boswell, Hitachi Rail MD, apologises to passenge...

A day of mixed blessings… Oh dear...there was a problem with the air con on the new GWR train from #Bristol to #London this morning......

This from Kaizen... Featured as the Daily Telegraph’s Fund of the Week in last Saturday's investment feature was John Laing Infrastruc...

UPDATE: This from Steve Strong... If there's one left unopened on your sideboard by tomorrow morning, then frankly I'll be amaz...

This from the Grauniad ... "There is a process we are legally bound to follow and we will follow that process. I'm not saying th...

It will come as no surprise to regular readers of Eye that Hitachi have been lobbying HMG over relations with the EU. In July Eye noted t...

Oh the irony! Just days BEFORE Her Majesty's Britannic Government expended more taxpayer cash on additional Ninky Nonk trains, Japan ...

Telegrammed by Mons Star As Captain Deltic's counter of days, since the placing of the last new train order, ticks ominously away the qu...

This from Ithuriel... I spotted this in the Derby Evening Telegraph : DERBYSHIRE rail companies are to be given a helping hand to break into...

This from Sir Humphrey Beeching... During my regular lunch at Rules with a former departmental colleague I was told, between mouthfuls of st...

Telegrammed by Ithuriel This from the Newcastle Journal ... BUILDING a fleet of new Intercity trains in the North East will save the country...

This from the Northern Echo ... TRAIN builder Hitachi yesterday hinted it could walk away from plans to create thousands of jobs in the Nort...

This exciting news from SouthEastern... To celebrate the first anniversary of the launch of High Speed, Southeastern, Hitachi Rail Europe an...

This from Guido ... When Philip Hammond tried to sell the cuts package to the people of the north-east on Question Time last night he menti...

Hitachi continues to pull out all the stops in a desperate attempt to save the doomed IEP. Regular readers will recollect that last month th...

Telegrammed by Ithuriel Hitachi is offering a masterclass in political lobbying as it fights to keep the IEP alive It can only help that B...

This from Pooh Bah... In Hitachi's latest advertisement, Charles Horton Southeastern MD describes the Class 395 as the smoothest new tra...

Whilst Tony Mercado (the new Stuart Baker?) and team are busy playing The Fat Controller with Pendolini what news of the IEP? Clearly DfT Ra...

Exciting news from Hitachi! Obviously despairing of ever signing a UK contract for the Frankenstein Train the inscrutable manufacturer has a...