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Learning and Development

Learning and development can take many forms on today’s railway. For a start, all new employees need training, not only to do their jobs...

Murder victim and timber ‘henge’ discovered in Buckinghamshire by HS2 archaeologists

A skeleton, believed to be a murder victim from the Iron Age, has been discovered by archaeologists working on the HS2 project in Buckinghamshire. Archaeologists...

Total Rail Solutions gets a new home

Total Rail Solutions, the rail specialist plant hire company, has completed its move from Basingstoke to Greenham Business Park, Thatcham, near Newbury. Managing director Paul...

Powering excellence

A new company, Breserv, is setting out to be the ‘Go to Company’ for all electrical installation work on the railway while having the...

The lockdown eases, replaced by confusion

As the lockdown starts to ease, it brings with it a degree of uncertainty and worry. Two months ago, the message from government and health...

Professor Felix Schmid steps down

Felix Schmid has retired from his post as Professor of Railway Systems Engineering at the University of Birmingham after 15 years. He moved to Birmingham...

Will the railway be reclassified?

Should the railways remain in the private sector? Or are they, effectively, already nationalised after the government’s emergency measures taken as part of its...

The one that got away

This year’s Railsport National Angling Championships, due to take place on 12 August 2020 at Makins Fisheries, has been cancelled as a result of...

Improved freight train scheduling

A consortium made up of Sheffield-based railway technology company 3Squared and operators Rail Operations Group and Freightliner has won government funding to develop an...

Class investigation into signalling operation

RAIB has investigated the effects on human performance in signalling operation following "numerous incidents in which signaller decision-making has been pivotal" The work of signallers,...

Michael Peter is now Siemens Mobility’s sole CEO

Michael Peter will become Siemens Mobility’s sole CEO as Sabrina Soussan, who has been his co-CEO until now, is leaving the company to take...

Another trackworker death. What more can be done?

Another railway worker - a controller of site safety - has been struck by a train and killed. What more do we need to...

New chair for NSAR

NSAR – the Nasional Skills Academy for Rail – has announced the appointment of Dyan Crowther, chief executive of HS1, as the new chair...

Steve Murphy to become CEO of MTR UK

Steve Murphy, currently managing director of MTR Elizabeth line, has been promoted to become Chief Executive Officer of MTR UK, a newly created entity...

Transport Benevolent Fund IMPROVES its benefits to meet today’s needs

Much has changed in the 97 years since the TBF was founded, so adjustments in benefits come as no surprise. Founded in 1923, the Transport...

Remote condition monitoring optimises performance

Knowing how trains are performing, and what may be wrong with them, is crucial as operators strive to improve fleet reliability The ability to monitor...

Network Rail supports First of a Kind innovators

A total of 11 out of the 25 winning entrants of the government’s £9.4 million First of a Kind (FOAK) 2020 competition to provide...

Chancellor ignores rail as he seeks to boost jobs and economic recovery

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has set out his ‘Plan for Jobs’, to spur the UK’s recovery from the Coronavirus outbreak. However, while...