The proposed re-opening of the Leamside line is apparently exciting much agitation amongst local residents. According to the Sunderland Echo...

Passenger Focus today responded to the publication of RAIB's report into Grayrigg. Anthony Smith, chief executive, Passenger Focus said...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road It's good to see Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent of The Times, has returned from his...

'How bona it was to vada Mr Hoon's dolly old eek again'... ...in tonight's Nottingham Evening Pos t : " I take a cl...

National Express has kindly clarified the industry's view of the Department for Transport. This from NatEx's response to the competi...

Unbelievable! Lord Bradshaw asked Her Majesty's Government: " Further to the Written Answers by Lord Bassam of Brighton on 29 Sept...

Alas all is not well in Kettle-land. There is much huffing, puffing and wheel spin amongst the clinker cognoscenti about recent media covera...

A reader has contacted The Fact Compiler to share the following Hull Trains press release dated from 1999. The press release reads " ...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road We understand there was consternation at New Minster House when Lord Adonis rolled up after t...

The gating of Sheffield station footbridge is causing Stagecoach franchise, East Midlands Trains, no end of trouble. The installation of aut...

Telegrammed by The Master One has to wonder who the bright spark is at VWC who thought that replacing all the quiet coach stickers with far ...

First... for shooting itself in the foot. First Group runs rail services in the Bristol area (prop. Andrew Haines). First Group also runs lo...

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...