At last some good news for Labour leadership candidate Diane Abbot Abbot has been trailing behind in the leadership race but all this looks ...

This from Driver Potter ... I refer to the July 2010 edition of Modern Railways (Page 22 if you're interested) wherein is made mention o...

This from Storm Force... This taken on a recent trip at Sveti Rok ob Sotli in Slovenia. The train is stopped in the station!

This from Tb... This view of Alstetten in Zurich just shows how poor the Swiss railways are compared to Britain. Note that there is no gard...

With a bowler tip to Oily Spanner... A bit worrying that this obvious piece of information has to be displayed in the driving cab of Undergr...

This from D0260... How's this for a cracker, seen last week at Smethwick Rolfe Street station between Wolverhampton and Birmingham on th...

This from The Master... It appears that the soi disant 'veteran' observer was in Yorkshire this weekend running a straw-race. Rath...

Telegrammed by Bulldog Drummond Interesting that two very similar stories (Alistair Osborne in Friday's Daily Telegraph and Tom Winsor ...

***Foster review of IEP expected 07:00 Tuesday morning*** More tomorrow... UPDATE: This from Reuters ... A decision on whether to proceed w...

This from Cheers Joe... I notice that the themes of your blog have met head on at Limehouse. I do not know whether that station also has poi...

Telegrammed by Spinning Charles Yerkes The pink ‘un had an interview on Friday with London Underground MD Mike Brown . Brown, recently resto...

This from a Mr Malins... There are as many, probably a lot more, pointless announcements as there are pointless signs. At Bridgend there is ...

It appears that Network Rail's Midlands Region can read the runes! The arrows of indecision clearly looks a safer bet than doomed NR...

The Independent on Sunday will have caused many a ruined breakfast with its list of industry figures keen to take on Iain Coucher's job...

This from D0260... Further to Eye's piece on the Coucher Memorial Fences at Stockport , w elcome to Birmingham International, or should ...

This from the Tax Payers Alliance ... With Trade Union Leaders flexing their muscles with strike threats and warnings about impending public...

The Fact Compiler has been taken to task for stereotyping our Teutonic friends in the previous post . Clearly in the new Europe this can not...