This from George Cross... According to Reuters : German state rail operator Deutsche Bahn AG is in talks with Britain about running its trai...

With a bowler tip to the Mytholmroyd Station Partnership ... Bloody stupid rule anyway. Ed

Telegrammed by Bulldog Drummond Eye is delighted to launch its new museum of Couchiana with this oddly drafted ATOC press release : ATOC re...

This from Slow Train author Michael Williams... On my latest latest foray around the secondary lines of Britain I spotted this at Aberystwy...

Eye salutes Philip Hammond for wresting the chair of the Department for Transport Board from Permanent Secretary Robert Devreaux. As any ful...

Telegrammed by Leo Pink It seems that Polyanna Walker , the new-ish ORR Chair, doesn't really understand what Sir Roy McNulty is about. ...

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...