US railroad company Iowa Pacific Holdings has bought RMS Locotech, the last remnant of ECT's unsuccessful foray into railways. Accordin...

The Fact Compiler has been forwarded the following management communication to ticket office staff: "For the benefit of Booking Hall st...

There are still a number of fleets on the network without retention tanks. As well as being a health risk to Pway workers and visually unple...

Rumours of further changes to HSBC's rail division. Having shot both the MD and Head of Customer Services the banking group is apparentl...

Telegrammed by the Master Virgin services out of Euston are just getting back to normal after being suspended (according to announcements) d...

Railway Eye readers wishing to relive the golden moments of Zontar's visit to Barrow Hill's 'Rail Power 2008' event may find...

Oh dear. The ORR appears to be taking up where the old inflexible HSE left off. Eight weeks ago in the Mountsorrell area of the Midland Main...

Rail magazine claims it is best for news. The Fact Compiler believes that Rail is selling itself short! Judging by page 24 of the latest iss...

The Fact Compiler has received an email from a gentleman calling himself 'Pike'. He writes: " Further to the theme of the verti...

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...