A big welcome to readers of Scottish Tory Boy. The young North British conservative has asked readers of his blog to back rail minister Tom...

A feast of crankery on BBC4 tonight to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Beeching Report. First off at 20:00 is a repeat (it is BBC4 af...

First reports of poor railhead adhesion are coming in following the winds of the last 24 hours. According to those out on the track the wet ...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road We note that in his good humoured reaction to Eye's poll for the next Secretary of State f...

First Group's Thameslink franchise, the strangely acronymed FuCC, is reporting reduced growth. Revenue growth has also " slowed mar...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Lord knows which ' senior person ' at Eurostar dictated the article in Monday's F...

FT reporting that Eurostar may be looking to procure new trains: " A senior figure involved told the Financial Times the operator migh...

Good to see that Network Rail can read the runes. NR treated Tory grandees to dinner last night, whilst the Smelly Socks were only offered d...

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...