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Craftwork for the Underground

London Underground wants to involve more craftsmen and small to medium businesses as it progresses ambitious upgrades at 70 stations. Already LU has selected more than...

Gare du Nord Bon Anniversaire

Paris Gare du Nord is 150 this year and it’s starting to show. Europe’s busiest station has been at the centre of a number of modernisations...

Liverpool subway open for business

Ahead of the International Festival for Business in Liverpool this June, rail engineers have been revamping the subway area that links Lime Street main...

Rail Alliance supports RailStaff Awards

The Rail Alliance is delighted to be associated with the RailStaff Awards 2014 and will be co-sponsoring the expanded event this year at Coventry....

Network Rail supports RailStaff Awards 2014

Network Rail is supporting the RailStaff Awards 2014 at a bigger venue - Coventry Ricoh Arena. In a fitting parallel to Network Rail’s inspired...

Rail Live 2014

With just a few weeks to go until Rail Live 2014 over 220 exhibitors registered and over 1600 visitors have booked up to attend....

Eurotunnel cuts freight rate

As pioneers of cross channel freight services celebrated the 20th anniversary of the opening of the international railway tunnel Eurotunnel announced a further series...

Jessica takes High Road

After surfacing at Stepney Green, Tunnel Boring Machine Jessica, travelled by road to her next job at Canning Town. To make the trip, Jessica was...

Backing for Scotland’s Railway

With passenger figures in Scotland set to rise from 90 million a year to over 104 million over the next five years, Network Rail Scotland...

Crossrail – Success defined

Crossrail’s operations director, Howard Smith, talks to Marc Johnson about where the project is going in 2014. Crossrail is a project in transition. As 2014 moves...

The rise of intermodal rail freight

During the last week of April, professionals from across the freight industry gathered at Birmingham’s NEC for the annual Multimodal exhibition. Maggie Simpson, Executive...

Statements of faith

Railway stations have always been inspiring places. The neo- classical columns of Huddersfield, Penn Central (pictured below) in New York and the Gare du...

Jacques Gounon: Imaginative, clever guy

Eurotunnel’s 20th anniversary marks a personal triumph for Jacques Gounon, the quietly spoken headmaster’s son from Créteil in south-east Paris. Writes Andy Milne The civil...

ISSL Apprentice Scheme

Twenty new entrants have been enrolled on ISS Labour’s (ISSL) new National Rail Apprentice Scheme (NRAS). Launched at the end of 2013, the scheme delivers...

Third column for Crossrail

Crossrail Ltd is managing to fill over a third of its jobs with women compared to just one in five in the rest of...

New Crossrail programme director appointed

Network Rail's Simon Wright has been appointed by Crossrail as the project's new programme director. Simon, who was previously director of infrastructure and utilities with...

SpencerGroup appoints CDI AndersElite as recruitment partner

Spencer Group, one of the UK’s leading specialist engineering businesses, has announced the appointment of CDI AndersElite to manage all of its permanent and...

Bridge bonus for Strathspey Railway

The installation of a bridge over the River Dulnain will enable the historic Strathspey Railway to eventually extend its heritage line from Broomhill to...