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Last call! – For the RailStaff Awards 2022

Limited amount of tickets available! Tickets for RailStaff Awards 2022 are now very limited and we close the booking for this year's event on...

The biggest night in the calendar

The event of the year is nearly upon us. On 24 November the great and good of the rail industry will convene to celebrate...

RailStaff Awards – Finalists announced!

Over 143,000 votes this year! Wow, thank you! It’s been another record-breaking year here at RailStaff Awards HQ.From rail managers to customer service assistants, apprentices...

Unipart Rail welcomes Julie Carrier as CCO

Julie Carrier has been appointed chief commercial officer (CCO) at Unipart Rail. Julie is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers with nearly 30...

London’s Transport Commissioner Andy Byford set to leave TfL

Transport for London (TfL) has announced that London’s Transport Commissioner, Andy Byford, will be leaving the organisation to resume life in the United States. He...

GTR appeals to women on career breaks through new partnership

Continuing its mission to entice people of all backgrounds to consider a career in rail, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), is partnering with purpose-led consulting,...

COOMBES appoints Rail Duo to support civils expansion

COOMBES is pleased to announce that Huw Abbey and Paul Fendt have been appointed to head up their rail civils team, as the...

Professor Roger Goodall 1946 – 2022

Rail Staff is sad to announce the death of Professor Roger Goodall, an outstanding engineer and Fellow and past chair of the IMechE Railway...

Railtex 2023: A clear focus on the rail industry of tomorrow

Taking place from 9 - 11 May 2023 at the NEC, in Birmingham, the UK’s number one event for the entire railway industry will...

Sunny Virk joins XEIAD as head of commercial

The civil engineering consultancy XEIAD has announced the appointment of Sunny Virk as its new head of commercial. Sunny has a wealth of experience in...

MTM visits London to attract UK rail talent

Metro Trains Melbourne (MTM) flew a team of its leaders 10,500 miles from Australia to scout out UK rail talent. Representatives of the company visited...

Riding Vietnam for Railway Children

This October, Advance TRS's director of client services & rail signalling, Sam Jennings will be taking part in Railway Children's Ride Vietnam challenge. As a...

A home for Great British Railways

Colin Wheeler The media frenzy following the resignation of Boris Johnson temporarily overshadowed progress in answering the arguably more important question of where Great British...

Great Musgrave – The inside track

Graeme Bickerdike There are hundreds of old railway bridges much like the one at Great Musgrave in Cumbria’s Eden Valley. The structure emerged from the...

HS2 – Training on the job

Matt Atkins As one of the largest UK rail projects ever undertaken, HS2 is reliant on a deep reservoir of people power, and the mega-project...

Expert commentary: Intertrain – City & Guilds

The rail industry is estimated to require thousands of additional workers each year over the next decade in order to complete planned projects and...

Driving towards success

Matt Atkins The competition for train driving roles is incredibly high with hundreds, if not thousands, chasing each vacancy. The selection process is rigorous and...

Bringing non-technical skills into the open

Safety incidents on the UK’s railway often have complex causes. They could be influenced by gaps in technical skills, like repairing track or operating...