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McGinley backs Infrastructure Team

McGinley Support Services is once again sponsoring the Infrastructure Team of the Year at this year’s RailStaff Awards. McGinley Support Services is a Link- Up accredited...

Progress supports Project Manager of the Year

Progress Rail Services UK Ltd is the proud sponsor of Project Manager of the Year Award 2014. The RailStaff Awards recognises the Professionalism, Innovation, Service...

SETEC backs Trainer of the Year

Top training company, SETEC, is sponsoring the Trainer of the Year at the RailStaff Awards 2014. This popular award salutes the work of an army...

Mane event for Depot Team Award

Technical recruitment specialist, Mane Contract Services, is sponsoring the Depot Team of the Year at the RailStaff Awards 2014. The UK now has one of...

Westermo backs Signalling and Telecommunications Engineer of the Year

Westermo Data Communications is sponsoring the Signalling and Telecommunications Engineer of the Year award at this year’s RailStaff Awards. The award aims to highlight...

Heathrow Express backs Train Driver of the Year

Heathrow Express is backing the Train Driver of the Year award at the RailStaff Awards 2014. The popular category is the first that comes to...

SSL – Developing and attracting talent

Signalling Solutions Ltd (SSL), the Alstom/Balfour Beatty joint venture is delighted to endorse and sponsor the ‘Graduate of The Year’ at the RailStaff Awards...

GB Railfreight celebrates achievements of suppliers

GB Railfreight is backing the Outstanding Customer Service Award at this year’s RailStaff Awards. In an industry with a high ratio of customer-supplier contact the...

Hyder Consulting boosts Bristol team

Hyder Consulting has made two new appointments to its fast-growing rail team in Bristol. Rachel Bennett and Tom Constantine are joining the company as...

Syntax adds to growing rail division

Recruitment services provider Syntax has added three new faces to its burgeoning rail recruitment division. Chris Beck and Laura Smit have both joined the rail...

Cambrian connection

Trains can now run the entire length of the Cambrian Coast line thanks to a new bridge at Llandecwyn in Gwynedd. The road and rail...

Change here for better prospects

Railway apprentices at Prospects College of Advanced Technology in Basildon, Essex, will benefit this winter from a new purpose built Rail Academy. The academy has...

Balfour Beatty committed to ‘core’ track plant business

Balfour Beatty’s rail business has been making headlines across the national and specialist trade press in recent months. The company has been slimming down in...

Scotland’s railway staff praised

Among the clear winners of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games is the Scottish railway industry. Steve Montgomery, ScotRail’s managing director, acknowledged the exceptional work of the 4,800...

From Wildenrath to Waterloo

Despite controversy over the retention of ageing Pacer units in the north, new fleets now on order, will substantially boost capacity on South West...

ACoRP’s Scarborough Fair

A walk along the esplanade at Scarborough on an autumn evening is hard to beat. Cold air laced with sea spray and the smell of fish...

NCB Collaboration

Two steam trains have stood side by side at Whitby station for the first time in 50 years to mark the opening of North...

Magenta magic in Birmingham

Midland Metro’s new magenta trams have entered passenger service between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, ticking off the first major milestone in the system’s relaunch. When the...