So a big Eye welcome to Philip Rutnam, who has been appointed the new Permanent Secretary at the DfT. Rutman is currently Director General B...

Exciting news reaches Eye of a brand new professional association designed to bring together the great and the good of the railway! The ...

To the barricades Comrades! This stonking piece of polemic from the RMT ... RAIL UNION RMT announced today it is holding a Budget “Day of Ac...

This from John Gelson over at East Coast... I thought Eye readers might be interested in East Coast's support for the Railway Children...

This from Captain Deltic... Celebrating 19 years of government meddling John Major in 1993 - " British Rail is deeply inefficient ...

This from Our Man at 222 Marylebone Road... Readers of Soviet Weekly's reports of party conferences in the 1950s will recognise the styl...

The mad Vulcan is at it again. This near illiterate anti-rail rant from Redwood's blog : Listening today to criticisms of the governemnt...

This from Mrs A P Tis... May I salute the Department for Transport for living up to its legendary reputation for attention to detail? A quic...

This from a Mr Rabid Burns... I can exclusively reveal the details of the new DfT smart-ticketing systems that the Command Paper referenced...

This from Captain Deltic... I note from section 4.67 of the Command Paper that: Our preference would be that, building on the Competition C...

Perhaps Clog Rail, with their home-grown expertise in water management, can do a little better than the previous franchisee?

This from Stockmarketwire.com... Professor Richard Parry-Jones is to be the next chairman of Network Rail. It is his intention to appoint a...

Good to see that the government's plans for smartcards are going well. According to Modern Railways ... Michael Leach has left...

Oh dear. This from the leader of the TSSA today: Manuel Cortes said: "If the local booking office goes, then the station itself will no...

Time for an exciting new Eye competition! Please study these two statements contained in recent press releases from the RMT and Labour tranp...

In advance of Friday's industry briefing on rail reform, government spinners have been hard at work. In the FT today the Department unv...

This from the Office of Rail Regulation ... We support the concept of alliances and welcome their potential to add value in the rail sector,...