Telegrammed by our independent expert Now is the time of year when that brave band of railway experts who apply to become public members of ...

A thug who glassed a security guard at Grays railway station has been locked up for just 15-months. Neanderthal yob Lee Senk rammed a glass...

Telegrammed by The Raver Judging by his latest rant in Rail the batteries on Nigel Harris's calculator need changing. He claims that the...

A big thank you to readers of Railway Eye. Especially to colleagues in the industry who have 'put the word around'. Our 5,000th read...

DfT has finally made the decision on who will manage the addition of desperately needed new vehicles to the Pendolino fleet. First the good...

Tom Winsor, former Rail Regulator, has an article in today's Times on the role of industry regulators. Tom writes: "Regulation is n...

The Fact Compiler has received an intriguing invitation to the Weardale Railway's 1940's themed 'War on the Line' even...

Good news for tree huggers. According to the Environment Times London Underground manages 10 per cent of the Capital's biodiversity. Mo...

The TranSys' summer BBQ was an unusually subdued affair last Wednesday (23rd July) . In previous years the Smartcard PFI Contractor has ...

The Fact Compiler was tempted to ask whether this BBC headline perhaps referred to the Chairman of a major infrastructure company? Gra...

Telegrammed from our man in 222 Marylebone Road Gordon Brown, speaking at last week's Motorshow, said that the rising cost of oil meant ...

From today's Standard. "It could cost £50 million to convert the mothballed Waterloo Eurostar station into a commuter terminal...

***Simon Dean, flamboyant former member of the team that delivered Royal Assent to Crossrail, has died.***

Telegrammed by our man in ICOBS Arriva Cross Country has decided to dispense with the ludicrously named "Shops" aboard the former ...

Leamington Spa What a splendid piece of partnership. Notice how the flower baskets, paid for by local citizens, are beautifully framed by th...

Good news from Network Rail. The following request has been circulated to members of the Best Practice Club Budget Control, Network Rail We ...

Telegrammed from our man in 222 Marylebone Road According to the press this weekend the Ministry of Defence has a £2bn hole in its budget. T...

Network Rail appear to have surpassed themselves again this morning with a spectacular engineering over-run at Rugby. This, coupled with the...

Primrose Hill tunnels on the WCML Engineered in 1837 by Robert Stephenson and the first tunnels in London. What marvellous custodians Networ...

PPPs are not exactly flavour of the month in London following the high profile collapse of Metronet . Recent failures of TfL's Oyster Ca...