The latest edition of Rail Management contains an advert which seemingly reinforces a number of tired stereotypes about industry 'temps...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road The 'IEP Evaluation Process Guidance Document' for the Frankenstein Train was publishe...

Who would be an ATOC press officer? Today's ersatz industry ensures that when there is good news TOCs take the credit. When it's bad...

Nigel Harris, editor of Rail Magazine, suggests the IEP should be known as the "Camel Class" whilst The Fact Compiler prefers ...

***Leading Labour blogger Kerry McCarthy MP (Bristol East) has discovered a man with £280 in cash concealed between his buttocks.*** Kerry M...

Unhappy news from the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway which has announced it will cease operations on Friday 26th December. Accord...

The increasingly potty Office of Rail Regulation has handed down yet another loopy pronouncement. The Holborn Mafia announced today that Net...

The Fact Compiler has been coaxed out of his deck chair by the following extra-ordinary announcement: 'Former London Mayor Ken Livingsto...

The Fact Compiler is on annual leave... Normal vitriol will resume on the 1st September...

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...