November site stats: In November 2008 Railway Eye received 8,298 visits from 3,010 unique visitors . Apparently you viewed 13,969 random sc...

Excitement on Sunday... " At 1448 staff at the East Anglian Railway Museum, at Chapel & Wakes Colne, had used the Ground Frame tele...

Good news for the incredulous. Geoff Hoon is again trying to shift the blame for above inflation fares increases onto TOCs This from today...

The Fact Compiler is delighted to receive an invite to a do being held tomorrow night by Bombardier and The Prince's Trust . The blurb o...

Disturbing news from Liverpool. Whilst the Met are busy locking up MPs it emerges that MerseyTravel have procured a U-boat ! This presumably...

Should Wolmar stick to the day job? Friday night saw the Railway Children Annual Ball at which the great man acted as celebrity auctioneer. ...

Courtesy of Guido Sauce for the goose and all that...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Railway Eye was delighted to receive the following in a press release from The Stonewood Group...

The battle to be Terry Morgan's successor at Tube Lines has begun. The Independent on Sunday is touting internal candidates Andrew Clea...

Are civil servants in other departments losing faith in DfT's oft disputed claim that there will be 1,300 new rail vehicles? This parlia...

This courtesy of The Crown Blogspot via Iain Dale . Railway Eye's latest poll refers.

Richard Bowker, as Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority, played a significant role in helping to deliver a much needed new footbridge, ...

Good to see Transport Scotland setting the very highest standards of public probity. This from The Herald " Opposition politicians and ...

With apologies to all those who didn't attend the Golden Spanner awards as this will make no sense at all.

Along to Modern Railway's Golden Spanner awards which celebrate the best improvements in fleet performance. With the police busy lock...

Norfolk bon viveurs continue to campaign vigourously for the retention of restaurant cars on National Express East Anglia services. With mou...

More exciting news from the world of Kettles A reader writes to pose the following interesting technical question: " If Tornado's t...

Telegrammed by Jack Ketch West Coast Railway Company appear determined to continue making their mark, despite losing out to EWS on the opera...

A banker writes: According to DafT's press release today about the invitation to tender for 1,200 new Thameslink vehicles: " Carria...

Telegrammed by Eboracum (50A) The sharp eyed cranks amongst you will have noticed that all the recent test runs of new ‘Uber Kettle’ Tornado...