This from Berlin... From 1 February 2010, Alain Thauvette, currently Director-General of Euro Cargo Rail in France, will become Head of Regi...

The Devil's Lantern appears much exercised by the Tube in Turmoil . Eye is surprised that the Metropolitan media hadn't seen this co...

According to Professional Engineering Magazine ... Tory heavyweight Lord Heseltine has cast doubt on the railway industry’s ability to come ...

Eye hears that DB Regio has managed to coax Richard McClean into becoming Managing Director of its new Nexus operating concession. Stalw...

This from Billy Connections... Thought you may like this pic of Lembit doing some serious research at Marylebone on Tuesday. In the event of...

NR's Internet Rapid Rebuttal Unit has responded, at length, to our man at 222 Marylebone Road's challenge to prove that Network Rail...

Last October Eye suggested that two of XC's five HST sets would be stood down at the December timetable change. Of course this was subj...

Good to see that the railway is showing its traditional contempt for the passenger. First ATOC threw smokers off platforms for no good rea...

Telegrammed by the Archer What a difference a word makes: From DfT’s press release on the new Greater Anglia franchise ‘ all new rolling st...

Telegrammed by the Raver This from NedRail... NedRailways today announced the launch of its new name, Abellio. In the annals of meaningless ...

A word on today's exciting announcement that the new, improved, East Coast main line timetable will not now be introduced until May 2011...

This from the Daily Telegraph ... Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a Conservative adviser, has said spending cuts of £75bn a year are needed to tac...

This internal announcement from the formerly doomed National Express (with a bowler tip to Sinoda): Dear All I wanted to update you about r...

Better late than never... Have your own go here .

Telegrammed by Leo Pink In this week's list of Railway related invitations to tender published in the Official Journal of the European U...

Exciting news from Hitachi! Obviously despairing of ever signing a UK contract for the Frankenstein Train the inscrutable manufacturer has a...

Eye readers are invited to suggest the current mode of conveyance used by Mr Pisspoor. Shank's Pony seems a safe bet.

Is the RMT's Bob Crow planning a career change? This extra-ordinary description of the great man on the Rail Network site: RMT General ...

Lord Adonis has been much exercised over the accuracy of PPM recently. Only last week Her Majesty's Daily Telegraph suggested he was ke...