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HS2 appoints COO and CFO

A new chief operating officer (COO) and chief finance officer (CFO) have been appointed at HS2 Ltd. Richard Robinson joins HS2 as COO from AECOM,...

Young cancer sufferer fulfils dream to become a train driver

Staff at Great Western Railway (GWR) have helped make a young cancer sufferer's dreams come true by making him a train driver for a...

Royal recognition for London Bridge attack heroes

Two British Transport Police (BTP) officers have been honoured for their heroic actions during the London Bridge terrorist attack. PC Leon McLeod is to be...

Is this 79-year-old Britain’s longest serving rail worker?

Network Rail and South Western Railway are celebrating the career of who they believe is the country's longest serving rail worker as they mark...

Chairman appointed for Network Rail vegetation management review

Rail minister Jo Johnson has appointed John Varley OBE TD to chair the review of Network Rail’s approach to vegetation management in England and Wales. John...

Getting ready for the Digital Railway

The modernisation of the signalling and control systems that manage Britain’s railway will represent a sizeable chunk of the planned investment for CP6 and...

RailStaff Awards: New addition to expert panel

We’re pleased to announce that Alison Rumsey, group HR director for Network Rail, will be part of the independent industry panel judging this year’s...

The ripple effect: Dealing with trauma

David Masters, Samaritans' rail programme communications lead, highlights the great work Samaritans volunteers have been doing since 2010 to support rail staff after traumatic...

The Rail Safety Summit: A safer railway for CP6

While the statistics show that working on the railway in 2018 is a far safer vocation than it was decades ago, staff still face...

Crossrail chairman moves to HS2

Transport secretary Chris Grayling has appointed Sir Terry Morgan as the new HS2 chairman. Sir Terry has been the chair of Crossrail since 2009 and...

Andrew Reid and Partners appoints rail director

Engineering consultancy Andrew Reid and Partners has appointed Tony Latienda as director for rail. Tony has more than 20 years in developing and delivering complex infrastructure, transportation...

Angel Trains CEO to step down

Malcolm Brown, CEO of Angel Trains, is to leave the train leasing company after 10 years to join investment management firm AMP Capital as senior...

Specialist police medics now being deployed on bikes in London

BTP's specialist police medics in London were deployed on bikes for the first time over the weekend in a move to decrease their deployment...

Mobilising the engineers of Generation Z

“Grey factories on grey streets on grey industrial estates.” Year of Engineering envoy MP Stephen Metcalfe knows engineering has an image problem. Since taking...

BTP’s Make the Difference Awards 2018

Westminster, the Manchester Arena, Finsbury Park, London Bridge, Parsons Green and Grenfell Tower. 2017 was an exceptionally difficult year for the country. Nevertheless, following...

London Underground’s Windrush generation

Transport for London's director of diversity and inclusion Staynton Brown explores how London Transport looked to the Commonwealth to help run the capital's transport...

New commercial director at Merseyrail

Merseyrail's head of marketing and corporate social responsibility (CSR) Suzanne Grant has been promoted to the role of commercial director. Over the past five years...

Crossrail HR director joins Siemens

Siemens UK & Ireland has appointed Crossrail's former talent & resources director as its new director of human resources. Valerie Todd will start on October...