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RailStaff December 2018: Get in touch!

Interviewing winners at the RailStaff Awards is my profession's equivalent of speed dating. Time is precious, you cut out the small talk and dive...

RailStaff November 2018: Times to remember

Issue 252 is my last as a member of the RailStaff editorial team. After six years and 70 or so issues, I’m saying goodbye...

RailStaff October2018: Under the radar

Earlier this month, a full timetable of passenger services operated through Derby for the first time in two and a half months. The mammoth...

RailStaff August 2018: Welcome back Andrew Haines

Our August issue comes out almost to the day that Andrew Haines OBE will take over as chief executive of Network Rail. Speaking to...

RailStaff July 2018: Hot and bothered

There’s been little opportunity to bask in the perpetual sunshine for Network Rail’s extreme weather action teams, who have been deployed across the network...

RailStaff June 2018: Testing times

The Rail Partnership Awards this month was a celebration of what the industry can achieve when it works together, said Mark Carne, delivering his...

RailStaff May 2018: The diversity debate

After spending a considerable amount of time calculating gender pay gap figures for this month’s issue, I had a sudden realisation: there’s a reason...

RailStaff April 2018: Spread the word

When it comes to advertising railway careers and the opportunities they offer, it’s helpful to have supportive voices fighting for the cause. With a...

RailStaff March 2018: In from the cold

Train drivers are made of stern stuff in South Wales. The sight of 30 centimetres of snow would have left most of us reaching...

RailStaff February 2018: Our mental health conversation

When we chose to focus on health and wellbeing for the February issue, it gave us the opportunity to address a topic that has...

RailStaff January 2018: Reasons to be cheerful

We all have our own Christmas rituals. They often include a healthy helping of gravy and a second serving of some sort of rich...