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Morson’s Charlotte Mollart brings home award

Charlotte Mollart, recruitment account manager for Crossrail at Morson Group, has won this year’s keenly contested Recruiter and HR Person or Team of the Year...

Engineering triumph for Amey Rail’s Andrew Loveday

A good sense of humour and strong team spirit are the winning qualities Amey Rail’s Andrew Loveday brings to his work as a site...

Rail Infrastructure and Possessions Team of the Year Award

PPS Rail may be relatively new in the rail industry but it draws on the combined strengths of its members to provide the rail...

Charity work makes Tim Brawn smile

Every year on his way home after Railway Children’s Three Peaks by Rail challenge, Tim Brawn, a control centre manager at First TransPennine Express...

Gail Satchell wins Outstanding Customer Service Award

A relative newcomer to the industry has won this year’s Outstanding Customer Service Award. Gail Satchell from Chippenham in Wiltshire joined Siemens Rail Automation in...

Ashford team pioneers national example

The team responsible for Hitachi Rail’s Ashford Train Maintenance Centre has won this year’s Depot Team of the Year Award. ‘We are absolutely elated,’ says...

Apprentice accolade for Ben Cox

Positive and helpful, with a sense of humour and optimism that’s always well received, is how colleagues describe Ben Cox, named as Apprentice of...

RailStaff Awards 2015 – Help: The Watchword of Success

When it comes to a vote of confidence in railways it doesn’t get much bigger than the RailStaff Awards 2015. Over 40,000 rail staff...

Mechan invests in young talent

Since 1991, Investors in People has defined what it takes to lead, support and manage people for sustainable results. Accreditation to the Standard identifies a...

David Knowles becomes COO of GBRf

One-time train driver David Knowles has been promoted to chief operating officer of GB Railfreight (GBRf), moving from his previous role as production director,...

The secret chord that David played

This summer, Dave Sheldon, 48, has been working out on track and is looking forward to taking up a full-time job with First Structure. For the...

Facing up to fatigue

As an industry that works such unsociable hours in high pressure environments, railway staff are familiar with fatigue in the workplace. In a safety...

Plummer to head RDG

Paul Plummer is to succeed Michael Roberts as the chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) and the Association of Train Operating Companies...

Frazer-Nash goes extra Myall

Frazer-Nash’s Tim Myall has been appointed business manager with responsibility for growing the consultancy’s rail business. Before returning to the UK last year, he helped...

Certifiably successful… summer celebration for advance-TRS

Rail recruitment specialists, advance Training & Recruitment Services, has successfully achieved ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001 certification - a major milestone for the consultancy,...

Life of a railwayman

There’s something that is both wholly impressive and utterly petrifying about seeing an 82-year-old boilersmith scramble up into the cab of a steam locomotive....

Rail industry backing for women in engineering

The rail industry came together to show powerful support for Women in Engineering Day on Tuesday, 23 June. Set up by the Women’s Engineering Society,...

Three Peaks pushes threshold

Railway staff and friends pushed the Three Peaks by Rail fundraising challenge to new heights this June. Teams raised a phenomenal £200,000 for the...