***Is The Fact Compiler alone in noticing that the RMT called off tomorrow's Tube Lines' strike within hours of Tim Parker leaving T...

Sir Richard Mottram has been appointed Chairman of Amey. View the Amey release here Sir Richard may be better known to Railway Eye readers ...

***Rumours that BoJo and Tim Parker may have had a falling out. The Fact Compiler may need to revise his entry of yesterday on TfL Board run...

Where Captain Deltic leads Mystic Wolmar is sure to follow. This is not necessarily a good thing. Regular readers of Railway Eye will be awa...

Ceri Evans, Communications Director of the late, and strangely much lamented SRA, was better known to the industry as Chemical Ceri. A shame...

Telegrammed by The Master Overheard this afternoon... ... as traincrew boarded the 1611 Worcs - Padd (formed of an HST rather than an Adelan...

To whom does 31468 belong? Owners RMS Locotech were convinced it belonged to them. However, prior to its move from Barrow Hill to Derby the ...

Plenty of media noise over the young infantryman turfed off an Arriva Cross Country service for having a discounted ticket and no supporting...

Paul Bigland, Pictographer Royal to the railway industry, has been sending out frantic emails to all and sundry: "I managed to lose my ...

Further to the piece earlier this week on the 'Crying Scotsman' a missive reaches The Fact Compiler from the editor of Model Rail ma...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road When it comes to erasing inconvenient historical truths the ATOC press office makes the airbru...

Now that the dust is settling following BoJo's shock announcement last week that TranSys' Oyster Card contract is to be terminated, ...

Much excitement amongst the Barrow Hill fraternity. Word on the grapevine has it that alien rock legend 'Zontar' will be making a sp...

Retail Price Inflation for July published = 5% Regulated fares increase in January by RPI+1 = 6% What impact on demand? UPDATE: More in tod...

Is this yet another example of the decline in proof reading at ORR since Tom Winsor left? We quote from KPMG's report ( for the Offi...

The Fact Compiler has received the following missive from Andy Roden, saviour of the Cornish sleeper and author of an excellent book on the ...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road One of KPMG's insightful suggestions on how to improve Network Rail governance is: es...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Railway Eye readers have already noted that KPMG appear unsure what infrastructure NR is actua...

...between the railway line pictured on the front cover of the ORR report into NR Corporate Governance and any assets that NR are actually r...