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Good news for civil liberties in the UK! Our latest poll shows that only 7% of you believe we still retain our ancient freedoms. Which means...

The dangers of posting to the internet explained... The Mail on Sunday's attention has alighted on 'flailing' and they have lift...

Telegrammed by the Master Another piss-poor show from FCC staff at Finsbury Park this morning. Despite the platform screens being out of ...

Rob Holden! According to a piece buried away at the back of yesterday's Times in the Movers and Shakers column! Not exactly a professio...

***Sky News reporting that EWS to shed 530 jobs*** Looks like next week's Railfreight Group Christmas do will be a jolly affair ... UPD...

Over on Wolmar's website is a trailer for The Railway Blues featuring the great man himself. But what's this? Just 30 seconds into ...

Good to see Network Rail supporting this event. The Fact Compiler hopes Team Railway will be in good voice...

...is very important on, or about, the railway.

This tosh from Daft: " 50 years of motorways: special birthday celebrated with opening of £174 million M6 extension " Presumably p...

The railways green credentials were sadly lacking this afternoon when Transport Minister Geoff Hoon presented Cub Scouts with their new safe...

***BBC claiming delay to Crossrail*** Mind you as they can't even spell Wolmar's name correctly... UPDATE: Crossrail sources indica...

This from First Group... " Andrew Haines, currently Managing Director Rail Division and Chief Operating Officer at First Great Western ...

Serious news: ORR paper pushers may have to do some work in the next two weeks! Or so it would appear from a story bordering on the indiscre...

This courtesy of Guido The Fact Compiler is delighted that MPs now know what it's like for the rest of us. After all they voted to en...

An arboreal conundrum... ...from Driver Potter Surely everyone knows that South Western men have hearts of Oak !

This from Behind the Water Tower... 100 year old dream ! Can someone sort Bernard the Visionary a gong?

The Fact Compiler is a great fan of HTML. Especially when read on iPhones, Blackberries and the like. Thus, it came as no surprise to receiv...

*** British Transport Police chief constable Ian Johnston is to investigate police handling of the inquiry which led to the search of Damian...

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