This from Fiona Gail... Perhaps the Colas tamper is a lawn mower in disguise.

A mournful DfT internal email has reached the Eye. It reminds those toiling in the Marsham Street bunker that: The general presumption will ...

This just in from Clarence Spad... ON THE DEPARTURE OF A CHIEF EXECUTIVE Lines written in the style of John Betjeman who, if he were alive ...

Eye salutes East Coast for positioning these so that passengers in a hurry have to negotiate a chicane when attempting to exit the station.

This from Biggles... Any idea who, or what, is responsible for the rash of platform-end fencing that is going up at West Coast stations? Is ...

As predicted by Eye on Tuesday there is bad news for the East of England CHANGES TO EAST COAST EUREKA! TIMETABLE PROPOSALS Train operator E...

Telegrammed by Ithuriel More bad news for the Department for Transport Having failed to get any money out of the ROSCOs, DfT Rail has now lo...

RAIL FRANCHISING My Department will shortly begin a consultation exercise on the future of rail franchising policy. This consultation will p...

***PA reporting that Iain Coucher may be leaving Network Rail*** More to follow... UPDATE: This from Network Rail... IAIN COUCHER TO STEP DO...

Although Transport is one of the more lowly Departments of State it can on occasions get right up there with the best of them. So it was wit...

More dark clouds over the previous government's electrification plans . This from a Lord's debate on Tuesday 15th June ominously en...

This from Keith Norman of Aslef ... ‘There’s a simple solution to keeping down costs,’ Keith says. ‘Stop money pouring out of our industry i...

Eye hears that technical specialists working on Thameslink are being temporarily stood down. Although the possible remobilisation in Autumn ...

Eye understands that there is an "item" on the grid tomorrow for the Department for Transport. What could this exciting announceme...

Last night the All Party Parliamentary Rail Group (APPRG) held its annual general meeting. It being a new Parliament there was an election o...

Exciting news from Petrol-head Hammond ! A drive to reduce long queues and the number of delayed flights was announced today as Transport Se...

Telegrammed by our Cultural Correspondent Cultural icons abounded in Marsham Street last evening as Lord Andrew Lloyd Weber's Really Use...

This with a bowler tip to the Going Underground Blog ... Perhaps the Camclegg twins can add over use of on-train announcements to the Great ...

This from Sheepbridge... 'I-Spy' books have apparently returned to our bookshelves (now sponsored by Michelin ) and seem to be offer...

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