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HS2 hits recruitment milestones

As HS2 celebrates apprenticeship milestones, project progress is driving future workforce opportunities. This year’s National Apprenticeship Week, which ran from 9-15 February, brought together businesses...

Milestone met at HS2 green tunnel

Construction of HS2’s longest green tunnel took a major step in early December with the realignment of a key local road, freeing up space...

Complex project professionals

Westbury South Renewal Team from the South Rail Systems Alliance (SRSA) celebrated on Thursday 28 November as they were the presented with the RailStaff...

AECOM appoints new managing director for transportation in Europe and India

Global infrastructure firm AECOM has announced the appointment of Steve Higham as managing director for transportation in Europe and India. Steve will lead the...

HS2 breaks through in Brum

HS2’s giant tunnelling machine Mary Ann broke through on Friday 9 May, marking the end of her mission to excavate the first bore of...

Minding the Gap for biodiversity

HRE's ‘Minding the Gap’ programme could change the way brownfield sites are assessed for biodiversity and reconnect fragmented habitats. The Historical Railways Estate (HRE) is...

Siemens Mobility secures £560 million HS2 contracts

Siemens Mobility has been awarded four significant contracts by HS2 Ltd and will join key contractors under the Rail Systems Alliance. Siemens Mobility will...

Construction of HS2 giant box structure under A46 approaches final phase

Construction of a 14,500-tonne box structure designed to take the new HS2 line under the A46 Kenilworth Bypass in Warwickshire has taken a major...

‘The Peaks and Dales Line’: Bringing relief on a congested network

Stephen Chaytow of the Manchester and East Midlands Rail Action Partnership, makes an updated and strengthened case for reinstatement of the Peaks and Dales...

Structures examination update: progress made

Colin Wheeler In the last edition of RailStaff I expressed disappointment at the lack of reportable progress following the exchange of correspondence on this issue...

Non-compliance with structures examinations “Network Rail not good enough!”

Colin Wheeler I had optimistically hoped to write in this edition describing the process and timescale agreed between the Office of Rail & Road (ORR)...

Incidents, accidents, overspeeding, and a near miss

Late notices for train drivers rely on them signing on and reading the details that apply to the route they are to drive. Today,...

An open letter to Network Rail

Colin Wheeler An open letter from John Larkinson, the chief executive of the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), to Andrew Haines, chief executive of...

XEIAD training academy – one year on

In December 2021, RailStaff spoke to civil engineering consultancy XEIAD as it prepared to launch its new Training Academy. Just over a year later,...

Engineering Success

The rail industry’s army of engineers keep the rail network running day and night, 365 days a year. Since the first days of the...

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...

Transport Secretary boosts investment for rail in the North to over £9 billion

Passengers in the North are set to benefit after the Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps more than trebled the investment for TransPennine route upgrades (TRU)....

Landmark plan sets out the transport investment needed in the South East

Transport for the South East (TfSE) has launched a 12-week public consultation on a £45 billion plan that sets out the steps to decarbonise...