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Gallery: RailSport 2016

A selection of images from the RailSport Games 2016.

Where are they now?

Gail Satchell, winner of Outstanding Customer Service Award last year, speaks about her surprise at scooping the 2015 prize. There’s one thing that the RailStaff...

Safety at the forefront

'Safety is at the forefront of any work we do,' says Bridgeway Consulting's managing director Pino De Rosa. There are examples of this everywhere. The...

YRP – Celebrating the past, present and future

On 8 April, the Young Rail Professionals (YRP) celebrated young people in rail at its fifth Annual Black Tie Dinner. This year’s event was held...

Video: Infrarail 2016

Day one of Infrarail 2016 condensed into just 66 seconds. Photo courtesy of Rail Media/www.highvizmedia.com

Infrarail 2016 in tweets

Rolling coverage of Infrarail 2016 with tweets.   https://twitter.com/oomph_creative/status/720240622947282947 https://twitter.com/infrarail/status/720214109522935808 https://twitter.com/lucylucyprior/status/720195880188583936 https://twitter.com/aplant_hire/status/720177151706861568 https://twitter.com/rockfalluk/status/720174100249976832 https://twitter.com/erlauuk/status/720167578505723904 https://twitter.com/jointingtech/status/719854172498182149 https://twitter.com/railindustry/status/719837069225365504 https://twitter.com/duracomposites/status/719639455498387456 Photo courtesy of Rail Media/www.highvizmedia.com

Eastern promise

Virgin Trains has unveiled the first of its new fleet of Azuma trains in a ceremony at King’s Cross attended by Sir Richard Branson. The...

Safe Start 2016

Walking into the Donington Park Exhibition Centre for Safe Start 2016, It was strange to think that just a few months ago progress on...

Snowhill heats up

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has officially opened HS2 Ltd’s new headquarters at 2 Snowhill, by Snow Hill station in central Birmingham. Up to 1,000 staff...

Rail BIM Summit

Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, came up with three rules to describe our relationship with technology. Number three says:...

Flying Scotsman – The legend continues

There must have been some point during the 10-year restoration of Flying Scotsman when even the most optimistic of the engineers involved wondered whether...

Back in steam

60103 Flying Scotsman is back in public view following a decade- long restoration project, easing itself in with a series of test runs on the...

Hendy to speak at Infrarail

The chairman of Network Rail, Sir Peter Hendy, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at Infrarail 2016 on 13 April, the middle day...

Apperley ever after

Closed by Beeching in 1965, Apperley Bridge station has reopened on the Leeds-Bradford line. Two former stations - Apperley Bridge and Kirkstall Forge - are...

Infrarail poised to ExCel

The Government’s launch of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) provides a further boost for Infrarail 2016 - next April in London. Chaired by former Transport Secretary...

NSARE losing its E

The National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering (NSARE) is planning to drop the E in its name - a reflection, it says, of the...

Our sons as well

This year’s Poppy Day carries an added poignancy: By November 1915 it was clear the war would not be over by Christmas, Andy Milne...

Countdown begins to Infrarail 2016

In just six months’ time, the next Infrarail exhibition will be in full swing. More than 80 companies have already selected their stands at...