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Rail heroes honoured

British Transport Police has paid tribute to its brave officers, rail staff, members of the public and a police dog in a special commendation...

Cab drive for Albert

A Helensburgh man has realised his boyhood dream of driving a train, at the age of 86. Albert McLean’s daughter set up the trip, at...

What do they do? The Rail Delivery Group

Set up in the wake of the McNulty report, the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) was tasked with analysing the 77-page document and working out...

Play it again – tram

The king of Morocco has launched the first tram line in Casablanca. King Mohammed VI joined Alstom staff to wave off the first of 74...

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...