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RSSB’s approach for mental health awareness week

One in six employees experience a mental health problem at any given time. RSSB recognises its responsibility to create a workplace where people don’t...

The RailStaff Awards: a spectacle with no shortage of inspiring characters

Who inspires you? A parent, a teacher, your best friend? You may never have thought to name the people who have shaped your life...

Apprenticeships are changing for the better – but negative headlines could give them a bad name

Network Rail's head of training strategy believes apprenticeships are changing for the better but that negative headlines could give them a bad name Apprenticeships are...

Meet Natalie Whitehead, the 25-year-old manager of Network Rail’s largest recycling site

If you go to Network Rail’s material handling depot at Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire, you’ll be warned about two rather unusual hazards. After going through the...

Gender pay gap: How does the rail industry compare?

Data is a wonderful thing. It fuels modern business, but how do you take it from its rawest state and turn it into something...

Rail Safety Solutions acquires Carillion Welding

Infrastructure specialists Rail Safety Solutions (RSS) has announced the acquisition of Carillion Welding. The move sees 63 jobs secured and all pre-existing framework contracts transferred...

RSSB: improve line manager training to reduce mental health-related absence

Stress and mental health problems are the leading causes of long-term absence in the rail industry but this could be reduced if line managers...

ScotRail rolls out app to help staff prevent suicides

Around 4,500 ScotRail employees will now have easy access to advice on how to prevent suicides on the railway thanks to the rollout of...

West Midlands Trains’ new starter to oversee introduction of EMUs

Porterbrook has announced that product development director Zena Dent is set to leave the business for West Midlands Trains (WMT). From July, Zena, who joined...

Presidential appointment at Jacobs

Jacobs Engineering Group has appointed Mark Southwell as vice president of its rail and geotechnical business in Europe. Based in London, Mark will be responsible for...

Ex-Go Ahead chief to be named HS1 chair

The former CEO of Go-Ahead Group, Keith Ludeman, is set to become the new chair of HS1. Keith became a non-executive director for HS1 on April...

RAILWORX: Rail Media and PLANTWORX launch new rail equipment trade show

PLANTWORX, the UK’s largest working plant and equipment exhibition in 2019, is about to get even bigger with the introduction of a new dedicated...

Officers narrowly avoid being hit by large block of wood at Birmingham New Street

Two British Transport Police PCSOs narrowly avoided serious injury when a large block of wood was dropped from above at Grand Central, Birmingham New...

New appointment at Arrow Solutions to spearhead rail sector development

East Midlands firm Arrow Solutions, a manufacturer of professional cleaning chemicals, has appointed a new sales manager for the rail sector. The company, which celebrates...

Darlow joins Dyer & Butler as rail director

Chris Darlow has been appointed rail director at the multi-disciplinary engineering specialists Dyer & Butler. Chris will use his 20 years of experience in the...

Plans in place for royal wedding as more than 100,000 expected to travel to Windsor

The British Transport Police (BTP) has revealed it has spent months piecing together plans to ensure the travelling public get to their destination safely...

Murphy on the lookout for plant maintenance apprentices

Murphy Plant is looking for school leavers to join its construction plant maintenance apprenticeship scheme. The Level 2 programme will see apprentices work on construction plant...

Ballyclare new starter to work on product development

Rail workwear manufacturer Ballyclare has appointed Stanley Russell as technical sales executive. He has more than four decades of experience in the textile industry and...