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East Midlands Trains going for RailSport glory

East Midlands Trains has signed up for the RailSport Games this summer. As well as bringing many of this year's competitors to the event,...

London Midland Labs – Getting serious about innovation

The railway’s slow rate of change and innovation is a popular topic of conversation at conferences and over networking drinks. A lack of free Wi-Fi...

Virgin at 20

Andy Milne looks back at 20 years of Virgin's involvement with the rail industry Well, my dear, how does it feel to be a Virgin...

HS2 – What happens next?

Royal assent represented the final piece of a complex legislative puzzle for Phase One of HS2. The announcement came as no surprise in the...

Crossrail innovation – The future?

‘It’s a bit like RoboCop or Minority Report’ said Rav Kugananthan, a project engineer working at Crossrail’s Liverpool Street station, as he squeezed his...

Rip-roaring start for 2017

2017 got off to a rip-roaring start for the rail industry, with a plethora of new projects completed, new trains on test and new...

Vision for stations

Towards the end of the 19th century, Joseph Pulitzer ran a campaign in his newspaper, the New York World, to raise money for the...

First class honours for Network Rail graduate and NTRS

Ambitious Network Rail graduate Lucy Hoyle won the 2016 Graduate of the Year award. Lucy, who studied geography at University College London (UCL) before joining the Network...

Charity and safety take centre stage

Network Rail’s Bill Cooke would have been briefly disappointed to miss out on the Safety Person of the Year award to John Abbott and...

Outstanding customer service and first female engineering award winner

Danny Roberts of TransPennine Express and Natalie Dickinson from ISS Labour were the first winners of the night at the 2016 RailStaff Awards. Danny, a...

Paul Plummer explains why Britain Runs on Rail

Ahead of the launch of the new Britain Runs on Rail campaign, the RDG’s chief executive, Paul Plummer, is on a mission to get...

Britain Runs on Rail

RailStaff is delighted to support the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) as it prepares to roll-out a groundbreaking new national campaign – the first of...

A Class 345 for Elizabeth

Bombardier has unveiled its first completed Class 345 Aventra train for Crossrail. With two now built, and three more underway, preparations are in full swing ahead...

RailSport 2016

LOROL capped their victory in this year's RailSport Games five-a-side final with a beautifully lofted goal from behind the halfway line - a high...

New fleets for North and Scotland

TransPennine Express (TPE) is pushing ahead with the purchase of a further 126 brand new carriages. Under the terms of its new franchise agreement FirstGroup’s...

Thameslink 700 in action

'Controversy? What controversy?' quipped Steve Scrimshaw, Siemens' managing director for rail in the UK, talking about the challenge of delivering the trains for Thameslink...

Ninjas of the yellow trains

'Like little ninjas,' said Katie Tingle, describing her team's role within Network Rail. 'If you can be a little ninja in a big yellow...

Committed to the core – Interview with Balfour Beatty Rail’s managing director, Mark Bullock

‘It makes me smile actually,’ says Mark Bullock, managing director of Balfour Beatty Rail. He’s referring to rumours that Balfour Beatty, one of Britain’s...