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Rail Team of the Year

One of the most loosely defined categories at the RailStaff Awards, Rail Team of the Year gives nominators broad scope. A team can be...

Rail Person of the Year

Although not intended to be the ‘Champion of Champions’ award, it is historically the last award of the evening and is often seen that...

HR, Diversity and Inclusion

One of the longer titles for a category in this year’s RailStaff Awards - the HR, Diversity & Inclusion Person or Team Award -...

Station Staff

The men and women who staff the 2,500 railway stations around the country have a lot to cope with. They have to keep those stations...

Samaritans Lifesaver

While the nominees in all of the RailStaff Awards categories can be called ‘heroes’ for the work that they do, those who win the...

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...

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...

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...

Graduates in lockdown

Trainees need to learn from their supervisors and managers, so how does that work during lockdown? Network Rail has a well-respected graduate training programme, during...

O’Neill & Brennan keeping the rail workforce safe from COVID-19

As the world slowly returns to normal, and the lockdown eases, more and more people are returning to work. Those who can, will still largely...

Joe Brooks joins rail team at MPI

Technical recruitment specialist MPI has appointed Joe Brooks as business development manager for the rail team. Joe joined MPI as a recruitment consultant in 2015...

Porterbrook names Sir Adrian Montague as its new chairman

Rail asset management company Porterbrook has announced that former Railtrack deputy chairman Sir Adrian Montague has joined it as chairman of the board. He...

Network Rail promotes inspirational women on International Women in Engineering Day

New research, conducted by Savanta ComRes for Network Rail, has highlighted a lack of female role models within Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)...

Take the QuaranTeam Challenge and do something amazing without leaving home.

Like many other charities in this time of Covid-19 and lockdown, Railway Children has had to cancel or postpone all their events this year...