What is it with heritage railways and the Second World War? A number of years ago Peak Rail managed to offend nearly everybody by running ...

Telegrammed by our Independent Expert With Liverpool Street closed for engineering work this weekend weary travellers are being fed onto the...

Telegrammed by The Master One of the beauties of rail over air travel is that you don't have to turn up two hours ahead and queue for ch...

Network Rail unveils low cost option for Great Western Main line electrification... With a bowler tip to both Captain Deltic and Frank Cheev...

It has taken our North American cousins to come up with the best name for the Parliamentary troughing scandal. This is Jon Stewart's tak...

Interesting. This from ShareCast ... Bus and train group National Express is to sell its London bus business, Travel London, to a subsidiary...

What bit of the current climate don't train operators get? There is a recession on. Everyone is feeling the squeeze. So what in God'...

This from Brand Republic ... Rail operator First Capital Connect (FCC) is to use Twitter to update passengers about delays and problems with...

This from the Norwich Evening News ... Every seat for (today's and Friday's) 5pm and 5.30pm from London Liverpool Street to Norwic...

This just in from PJ over at the Network Rail press office... It's not my job to defend the cost of rail fares but I thought I had to s...

So the supine Advertising Standards Authority has finally decided to act on the TrainLine's misleading and frankly rather insulting ...

***Iain Dale suggesting that Transport Secretary Geoff Hoo n may have the same CGT questions to answer as Hazel Blears***

The Eye wishes to apologise for having opposed the gating of InterCity stations. The Fact Compiler erroneously believed that barriers woul...

Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road This written answer given in the House of Commons on the 19th May... Norman Baker (Lewes, Lib...

An extra-ordinary puff piece on Richard Bowker in tonight's Evening Standard . Chris Blackhurst begins: " There are some people I...

Oh dear, oh dear. Not content with upsetting the transport corresponden t of a national newspaper it now appears as if the Virgin media mach...

This just in from Mutley... Scrolling through the Letting of Rail Franchises report and paragraph 7 in chapter 1 caught my eye and may help ...

This just in from The Archer... Spotted on a recent visit to China: Are the days of Shanghai's branch lines numbered?

The RMT has opened a branch on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway , where it has signed up 50 paid and volunteer staff. Is this the first RMT...

This slightly incredible story from getreading ... A group of pensioners living in Theale who refused to pay a massive hike in an access cha...