The Fact Compiler was in danger of listening to the hype, almost believing that new Secretary of State for Transport, Geoff Hoon, was a good...

Is the National Audit Office now colluding in DafT's dishonest declarations about the amount of new rolling stock it has ordered? Accord...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road According to a reader's letter in today's Daily Telegraph: ' In the 50 years of n...

The Fact Compiler has received the following helpful information from a reader: As there is a lot of meeting and greeting in the railway ind...

The chaos caused by Network Rail's publication of it's East Coast capacity assessment report continues unabated. Latest to be hit ...

Telegrammed by The Raver One of the non-executive directors of the Royal Bank of Scotland is none other than Sir Steve Robson.   Robson it...

***An old timer speaks***

*** RMT demanding an apology from transport police after two track workers arrested in connection with the Grayrigg crash and kept under cau...

Christian Wolmar has emailed to thank those Railway Eye readers who sponsored his half marathon on Sunday. " I ran the half marathon in...

Blogging MP Derek Wyatt has taken up the cudgels on behalf of his local heritage railway. Railway Eye readers will recollect that the Sittin...

A petition has been added to the No 10 website against the proposed withdrawal of rail services between Walsall and Wolverhampton. It has be...

Is there a section in Debrett's Guide to Modern Manners that deals with this? The Modern Dilemma If it's not policed then it's n...

The Fact Compiler has been asked to help with a survey on ticket machine use. Normally this sort of request would be placed in the circular ...

National Express East Coast is reporting much improved performance. " Latest statistics covering four weeks to Sunday, October 12, show...

Off to the beautiful Derbyshire spa town of Buxton. The Romans called the town “ Aquae Arnemetiae ” which translates as “The Wa...

So First Great Western has been cap in hand to the Department to renegotiate it's £1.1bn franchise A freedom of information request, rep...

Telegrammed by The Raver Boris was meeting the deputy mayor of Beijing, this morning, whose name is: Mr Chen Gang. We wonder how many...

Several pundits have pointed out that Geoff Hoon's father (and grandfather) worked on the railways. The Fact Compiler is struggling to s...

Before you ask - no we do not now own a Rosco. The £37bn of our hard earned cash that Gordon is throwing at the profligate wankers (sic) wil...

Our North American cousins experience a little local difficulty with a road railer. It would appear that incompetent contractors are not sol...