This from the twitter feed of Ken Skates… Ken is 'the Official channel of the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure' ...

The latest organisation trying, belatedly, to get inside the digital railway bubble are civil engineers Balfour Beatty. What, Eye ponders,...

This from Benjamin Disraeli... According to the Rail Delivery Group Notes to Editors on today's launch of the 'Landmark coming to...

Good news for fans of Railway Pride and Hampton Court station. Regular Eye readers may recall this sorry image of the buffer stops at Plat...

This, apparently, from Dicky Davis… As you might expect in North Dulwich, they have gone one better: hanging gardens!

This from the Lady Mallet… Arboreal greetings from Suffolk!

So, today the rail industry launched its ‘In Partnership for Britain’s Prosperity’ plan. Backed by all passenger train operating companies...

Much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the Supply Chain tonight! Lord Prior, the BEIS minister championing the rail Sector Strategy, resign...

This announcement from the Department for Transport, via a number of chums… Director General, Rail Group Polly Payne and Ruth Hannant ha...

Exciting news from Great Minster House! This important announcement seen today… We may safely assume that DfT's former chill...

This, from Hitachi,  is impressive.. . We're sorry - and we will do better. Karen Boswell, Hitachi Rail MD, apologises to passenge...

A day of mixed blessings… Oh dear...there was a problem with the air con on the new GWR train from #Bristol to #London this morning......

Not so much a Pointless Sign… …as a sign that missed its own point.

Wolmar wed today! Any suggestions that this is a publicity stunt prior to the publication of his new book 'Railways and the Raj...

This from a Mr Penson... What a reassuring sight to greet you on arrival at Hampton Court's platform 2. As Henry Francis Lyte obs...

The scene: A room at 221b Baker Street... I am sure Watson, that you will have noted the significance of the Scottish Statement of Funds A...

This from the Weaver… ' Railway pride restored in Belper - thank you to all involved' . Older Eye hands may remember this image ...

Much rejoicing over the size of the Statement of Funds Available ! A cool £48bn for CP6, and apparently almost all of it on OMR. Plaudit...

A welcome return for Eye's occasional series of Pointless Signs! This from Steady as She Goes… Emergency electrification? H...

Captain Deltic writes... I was saddened to learn of the death of Steve Marshall at the early age of 60. Steve took over as Chief Exe...