A quick update on our poll of polls asking "Who should replace Ruth Kelly?" According to Railway Eye readers (see right) the top j...

Wolmar has written a Gruaniad comment piece on the Tories damascene conversion to high speed rail. Read it here . Mystic Wolmar is in the va...

Train spotter's French diary " This was an American-designed, Canadian-built, British locomotive operating in France for a German c...

So the Tories have come out in favour of a high speed line instead of a third runway at Heathrow. Read the BBC piece here. However, with Tr...

The Spectator Parliamentarian Awards are “ the Oscars of Westminster, the Booker Prize of our lawmakers, the Blankety Blank cheque book and ...

Telegrammed by Eboracum (50A) Time is running out for ex Porterbrook flagship locomotive 55016 Gordon Highlander. A group of Deltic crank...

Unusually, serving Rail Minister, Tom Harris, elected to discuss transport on his now infamous blog. What caused Tom to bend his own unwritt...

Telegrammed by Eboracum (50A) The RAIB report into the collision of a train with a demolished footbridge at Barrow upon Soar was published ...

Telegrammed by Eboracum (50A) Despite NEG’s promise that GNER’s high customer service standards would be maintained on the ECML this seems n...

It would appear that The Fact Compiler is not alone in being irked by fatuous railway announcements. A Railway Eye regular has been in conta...

Announcement on a Virgin service from Liverpool: " We are now making our final approach into Euston " . Congratulations to Beardie...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road All four shortlisted bidders for the new Thameslink train fleet are expected to submit fully...

The Fact Compiler is indebted to Al from Whittlesford Parkway for this entry to the Railway Garden Competition. Al writes: " It's n...

Telegrammed by our independent expert Your correspondent is aboard a Piccadilly line train from Heathrow where the driver has just announced...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Today's Financial Times undertakes some high brow analysis of transport policy post Ruth...

Scottish Tory Boy: Is it Tom Harris' time?

Telegrammed by Barry Spotter The Times online reports that a Eurostar service came to a stand in the Chunnel this morning. Keen to make a mo...

A nice valedictory from Tom Harris to his soon to be erstwhile boss Read it here. The Fact Compiler wonders what the reshuffle holds for Har...

With the industry desperately hoping for a tangible commitment to electrification and additional capacity what did the Secretary of State ac...

Telegrammed by Arrow Head Be careful what you wish for. The Apostle of the Pantograph did indeed slip in something radical, just not what ...