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NCB backs Project Manager of the Year

Network Certification Body, NCB, is sponsoring the Project Manager of the Year award at the RailStaff Awards 2015. Since it was established three years go, NCB...

Telent backs Graduate of the Year

Top communications technology company telent is backing the Graduate of the Year award at the RailStaff Awards 2015. With strong industry-wide momentum to recruit young...

Next Generation Rail – Knowledge without Borders

The future leaders of Great Britain’s railways gathered at the impressive Network Rail Westwood training and leadership centre earlier this month to be inspired,...

FirstGroup backs Lifetime Achievement Award

FirstGroup is the proud sponsor of the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s RailStaff Awards. The company is one of Britain’s most experienced rail operators...

Spotlight on Young Rail Professionals East Midlands

Fundamental to the mission of Young Rail Professionals (YRP) is the regional expansion of the organisation, reaching across Great Britain to engage as wide...

RailStaff Awards – Celebrating the railway family

‘If it’s a family, as you claim, then it’s certainly a dysfunctional one,’ said a mainstream journalist. ‘Industrial unrest, mis-selling tickets - I bet...

Quintinshill remembered

The Princess Royal and Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, both took part in events to mark the centenary of Britain’s worst rail disaster. The 1915...

Young Rail Professionals – To the ball

April saw the Young Rail Professionals (YRP) Annual Black Tie Dinner, a yearly celebration of young people in rail. Always a glittering spectacle, this year’s...

Building rail telecommunications networks with Westermo

Free Introduction to IP courses will be on offer on Wednesday, 10 June at Rail Media House in Coalville. To mark its continued sponsorship of the Signalling...

Everest Base Camp rail team backs Nepal appeal

As international relief agencies switch from rescue operations to keeping survivors alive and rebuilding houses and infrastructure, Rail Media’s Adam O’Connor has renewed calls...

Major incidents and the role of reporting

Safety conferences aren’t particularly emotional places. The legal and regulatory responsibilities often take centre stage. Delegates sit, take notes from colleagues on things they...

My Work app records millionth work order

Paul Ellis and his team at Liverpool Delivery Unit have been singled out for praise after submitting the millionth work order using the My...

Midland Main Line electrification – A fairytale ending

The Midland Main Line (MML) is described as being something of a ‘Cinderella’ railway. That’s a nice way of saying that it hasn’t seen much in the...

Digital countdown

‘We need to grasp the opportunity of digital train control far faster’, says Mark Carne, chief executive of Network Rail. ‘The digital railway will...

The history of Siberian Railways

The history of Siberian railways, their engineering and operational challenges and future development is to be the subject of a presentation “Siberian Railways – Past,...

Top Speakers for Rail Exec

Three of the most charismatic leaders in the new rail industry have been confirmed as speakers at this year’s first Rail Exec Club lunch...

Steam Drama at King’s Cross

The Olivier Award-winning stage version of Edith Nesbit’s ‘The Railway Children’ is set for further performances during school holidays this year at its purpose-built...

Big top sensation sweeps rail

‘I must thank Pat Tollar in the Rail Media office,’ said Sally Ralston of Merseyrail at the RailStaff Awards 2014. Sally had nominated several...