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Honours for rail heroes

A welcome host at Warwick Parkway station, the man who designed the InterCity 125 nose cone and a legendary rail manager in the west...

Ludeman heads overseas

Keith Ludeman, former chief executive of the Go-Ahead Group, has joined new international business, Network Rail Consulting, as a non-executive director. Network Rail Consulting, a...

Sheffield honours for railway graduates

Network Rail has seen 18 of its former apprentices graduate from Sheffield Hallam University with higher national certificates (HNC) in railway engineering this November. In...

Passenger Focus – A Critical Friend

Continuing our series looking at people and organisations in the rail industry, RailStaff asks the question: What do they do? Marc Johnson reports on the...

Armitt to chair National Express

Sir John Armitt, the man who helped set up Network Rail and oversaw the hugely successful Olympic Delivery Authority will become the next chairman...

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...