***Both Peter Aldridge and Robert Marrill, Head of Customer Services and Operations at HSBC Rail have been seen shopping for new lawn mower...

The Big Grin used yesterday's Prime Minister's Questions to hint that he has something revolutionary and exciting up his sleeve for ...

The current turbulence in the world's financial markets has not left the Rolling Stock Leasing Companies unscathed. With the price of ca...

Oh dear - is ageing satirical magazine Private Eye loosing the plot? The latest issue has a story by Gavel Basher on "worth every penny...

***Short staffed and under pressure crew on an Arriva XC Leeds to Soton service this morning were delighted when ISS manager Margaret rolled...

Telegrammed by our man in 222 Marylebone Road... H ere is Tom ( why are you all so bloody miserable ) Harris addressing the Institute o...

Media sections in yesterday's papers reported the likely demise of The London Paper, Murdoch's Standard spoiler. Despite denials tod...

A rail gourmet rants: 08:30 Kings X to Newcastle - No chef 09:00 Kings X to Edinburgh - Chef but no food! The Fact Compiler wonders whe...

Rail Minister Tom Harris had a difficult end to his week on Friday when there was quite a media brouhaha over his blog question demanding wh...

***Letter from The Business Editor, Rail*** Dear Fact Compiler I enjoyed your analysis of last week's story about NR and its look at new...

There was a time when this Gentleman was so far to the left that the photographer would have had to be in the Guard's van to get his pic...

Who stands to benefit from today's leak that Network Rail is to undertake a review into the construction of five new main lines? Not Net...

BASEL (Reuters) - Switzerland's national railway has told its workers to stop using their normal orange reflective vests after confused...

Heritage Railways are suffering from rising fuel prices. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway has threatened to reduce services as a growing nu...

To paraphrase Holy Writ - "Can anything good come out of Porterbrook"? Bucking the trend is Keith Rose, former Head of Safety at t...

Transport minister Tom Harris has apologised for asking why Britons are 'so bloody miserable'. In his blog post titled ' Heaven ...

Tom Harris provides an update on fans of his blog "Today, as I was driving home up the M6, I received two calls from journalists. Appar...

Chris Bolt today announced that the Office of Rail Regulation would produce its own strategy for the railways. Predicting record growth and...

It is well known that the Welsh Assembly Government and Arriva Trains Wales work closely together. But it took the press to discover quite ...

***Determined not to be caught out by ORR again, Iain Coucher has summoned TOC owner groups to a meeting on the 1st July to discuss CP5 ! *...