Seen in the letters page of today's Daily Telegraph: "Service with a smile When I travelled by train from London Paddington to King...

Good news for lusty users of timetable website nationalrail.co.uk Adverts have started appearing on the site from Pabo , a company which off...

Network Rail has upped it's game offering Virgin West Coast a magnificent 24 hours notice of timetable changes, judging by an email rece...

***New company EuroPhoenix in deal to buy 23 cl86 electric locos from HSBC for work in Europe and the UK*** View the EuroPhoenix website he...

Good news for passengers aboard today's Cromwell hauled 'Scarborough Spa Express'. There will be additional time to savour the d...

A Railway Eye reader in Birmingham has leapt to the defence of London Midland following yesterdays piece about the new "ON" brandi...

Friday is the start of the Barrow Hill crank-fest extra-ordinaire 'Rail Power 2008' (22nd - 25th August) . As well as a special gue...

It's no surprise that the economy is going to rack and ruin when Government is so profligate with our money. The Fact Compiler received ...

Rail Minister Tom Harris has written an article in homage to Pendolino loos. View Tom's blog here. Strangely the piece is entitled ...

With the demise of ONE and the promised end to C2C The Fact Compiler was hopeful that ludicrous names were beginning to disappear from the n...

Leafing through the latest edition of Rail Professional the Fact Compiler stumbled across the following strange headline: " Aldridge ma...

The Fact Compiler is grateful to a number of correspondents who have offered further insights into members of the new TfL Board. Captain Del...

***DfT has shortlisted the following bidders for the South Central franchise: NedRailways - South Central Ltd, National Express - NXSC Train...

***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 ...