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Women in engineering: Change the mindset to change the balance

Following the NSARE inspection in the summer, it was made clear that expert training within the rail industry is of paramount importance. However, what is...

Graduate call for Crossrail

Crossrail is recruiting graduates to the project between now and the end of January. The first successful applicants to the Crossrail Graduate Scheme will join...

Women in Engineering

Change the mindset to change the balance Following the NSARE inspection in the summer, it was made clear that expert training within the rail industry...

Cameron open Charlbury

Taking a break from more onerous affairs of state Prime Minister David Cameron stopped off to open Charlbury Station car park following the completion...

Rail Engineer triumph for Chris Hooper

Chris Hooper of communications company, telent, has won this year’s Rail Engineer of the Year Award. Chris, a development engineer at telent, is based in...

New post for Powell

David Powell will be overseeing the procurement of new trains for the Merseyrail network. Powell, 44, has been appointed Project Director, Rolling Stock. David has...

ScotRail takes on more apprentices

ScotRail has taken on a second tranche of recruits for its Modern Apprenticeship in Customer Service. The apprentices will study for an SVQ Level 2...

New roles at Interfleet

Martin Fenner, Ken Chan and Stephen Head - a product of Interfleet’s Graduate Development Scheme - have joined Interfleet Technology’s expanded Advanced Rail Control...

Take a view

A picture by Graham Hobbs of the 08:30 service from Hamworthy speeding through Holes Bay at Poole, Dorset (above), has won the Network Rail...

Advance warning

This Christmas whilst sat around the table with your family spare a thought for the Signalling Testers who will be working hard to ensure...

Young people get into transport

Four young people from the West Midlands have been offered apprenticeships with Centro after completing a Prince’s Trust scheme. Leon Castle, Moah Nur, Vanessa Smith...

Olympic kit reunion for Team GB swimmer

Olympic silver medalist Michael Jamieson has been reunited with his Olympic kit which he left on a train thanks to keen nosed detective work...

What they’re saying about rail apprenticeships

Enthusiasm among new people joining Network Rail’s apprenticeship scheme is helping attract more people to the industry. It’s hard work but railway banter and humour...

Lucky escape for railwayman

Ray Towell, long-time railwayman and recently retired operations manager at the National Rail Museum had a lucky escape on a York street recently. Ray, 66,...

East Coast supports Train Driver of the Year

East Coast is again sponsoring the Train Driver of the Year award at the RailStaff Awards 2012. Train drivers are an essential element of the...

Taking you to the top

Smart personnel are the most important element of any company. In the rail industry, in particular, they represent their firm at every level and are...

Industry marks passing of Tom Clift

At the start of the ACoRP annual awards at the Swindon Steam Railway Museum ACoRP’s Neil Buxton called for a brief silence and then...

Westward Ho! – Andy Milne talks to Vernon Barker, managing director of FirstGroup’s Rail Division

FirstGroup’s Rail Division is run from Macmillan House on Paddington Station but also has a quiet set of offices across the road on Eastbourne...