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

A perfect run last night from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Cross! Operated by Virgin Trains... Controlled by East Coast... Burying IEP! ...

The normally camera shy Captain Deltic was out and about yesterday contributing to a BBC 4 programme. " Off to record a BBC programme a...

In a completely unexpected development it has emerged that the exciting new replacement for the HST fleet is subject to yet further delay ...

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...

Eye is amused to hear news of Robert Devereux. Regular followers of the railway scene will remember Devereux as the former Permanent Secreta...

Regular Eye readers will recall that UNIFE reacted with fury to Petrol-head's decision to award the IEP contract to Hitachi. In particul...

Exciting news from the Lobby... According to the Downing Street spokesman Petrol-head will be making an announcement on electrification toda...

Exciting news from the ever-profligate Department for Transport. This written answer from Cruella on the 1st February... John McDonnell (Ha...

This from The Marsham Street Observer... Following Japan's heavyweight lobbying in favour of Hitachi, the reception area outside Petrol-...

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 from the DfT ... The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr Philip Hammond): This statement sets out the Government’s plans for investmen...

So. Good news for the South East (Thameslink and Crossrail get 1,800 new passenger vehicles). Apparently the homes for another 200 vehicles ...

Exciting news for those who are completely confused about when Petrol-head will announce the death of the UK's last remaining train manu...

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

Telegrammed by Crichel Down Department for Transport announcements are a bit like the famed Cherbourg rail timetable If it's a Tuesday o...

Clearly Petrol-head and his minions are getting the hang of this railway malarkey. To the surprise of absolutely nobody last Thursday's ...

Telegrammed by Ithuriel Subscribers to RailHub were tantalised with the following this morning... Philip Hammond is understood to be visiti...