Railway Eye surveys continue to confound the so called experts and the industry chatterati. Last week readers were invited to express their ...

A reader has kindly sent in these images of the Loram rail grinder in action at Crewe on the 11th November . Perhaps an occasion for grindin...

Just a week ago National Express alerted the media to an exciting "cook off" for the coveted title 'Chef of the Year'. The...

Yesterday NEG announced swinging redundancies at it's East Anglia TOC. Time for the struggling owner group to keep its head down some mi...

...from this over-excited tosh? " Eurostar... has appointed RAPP (formerly WAVV RAPP COLLINS) to support its Pan European Customer Re...

***LNWR sold to Arriva*** Crewe should be so lucky. Lucky, lucky, lucky

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road ...answer like a weasel! Written answers Monday, 17 November 2008, House of Lords Lord Bra...

Tom Harris has pre-empted a highly embarrassing Freedom of Information request by publishing the offending document on his own blog. Read To...

National Express is to shed 300 rail jobs according to The Independent. Read the Indy piece here. Or indeed Railway Eye from October if yo...

Bowker's Law says there are only two sources of railway funding - from the fare box and the tax payer. The Public Accounts Committee hav...

Telegrammed by The Master Inter TOC co-operation and holding connections for late services isn't always the stuff of myth, as passengers...

***Balfour Beatty, the international engineering, construction, services and investment Group announces the appointment of Andrew McNaught...

FCC certainly knows how to win friends and influence people. As Enfield North MP, Joan Ryan, discovered when she handed out leaflets at Enfi...

Telegrammed by our Poor-industrial Relations correspondent Much anger at the NRM after it was revealed that National Museums of Science and...

So Terry Morgan will be the new chairman of Crossrail . Morgan, currently boss of Tube Lines, will start work in November next year, accordi...

One of the delights of summer is the traditional Railway Garden. Alas, with winter upon us Mother Nature is in retreat, revealing a multitud...

***An interesting piece on German Timetable planning ***

The Fact Compiler prefers black tie. Mind you, wearing one doesn't automatically make one a gentleman.

Another example of the law of unintended consequences. On the 11th June 2003 a drunken student fell between the gap in the platform and a S...

What is it with Germans and trains? Children ordered off trains. Put them in a uniform...