The rail industry is renewing its efforts to attract more graduates onto the metals.
Selection is now underway for the ‘Track and Train’ scheme. Graduates...
Network Rail is using a new Facebook campaign to recruit 200 people for its three year advanced apprenticeship scheme.
Would-be applicants can ask questions and...
Prime Minister David Cameron and Skills Minister John Hayes recently visited Crossrail’s new Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy.
Apprentices and staff met the pair and...
Spring is coming early to Great Yarmouth station thanks to the hard work of staff and local people’s generosity.
Greater Anglia’s Ann Kirkham and Jane...
Hove MP, Mike Weatherley has launched Southern’s Eyewitness safety initiative at Hove railway station.
Mr Weatherley joined Southern Rail staff to launch the low-level crime...
The Settle-Carlisle Walking Festival looks like being a huge success this May.
Everest mountaineer, Alan Hinkes OBE (left), will start two guided walks from Garsdale...
Doncaster staff at Unipart Rail raised £640 for the Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice in North Anston, Sheffield.
The money was raised by holding raffles and...
Young people are increasingly using the railways as costs of petrol and car insurance soar.
Record numbers of young people are using the 16-25 Railcard,...
Nicola Goncalves has joined the Railway Mission as chaplain for Edinburgh and the east of Scotland.
Her parish stretches right up to Aberdeen and Inverness....
Parsons Brinckerhoff has appointed Ian Bridges as its new Head of Signalling in Britain.
The company’s UK rail activity includes engineering consultancy for some of...
The former chief technical officer of the Ford Motor Company in the UK, Professor Richard Parry-Jones CBE, is to chair Network Rail.
He will replace...
London Underground is on target to achieve its most reliable year for ten years.
Passenger numbers are soaring and average delays are at their lowest...
Prime Minister David Cameron and Skills Minister John Hayes recently visited Crossrail’s new Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy.
Apprentices and staff met the pair and...
Discussing railway training with Grant McNab, Business Development Manager of Stobart Rail, has unforeseen consequences, Paul Curtis reports.
One cold morning in Cumbria I watched,...
