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MTM visits London to attract UK rail talent

Metro Trains Melbourne (MTM) flew a team of its leaders 10,500 miles from Australia to scout out UK rail talent. Representatives of the company visited...

A home for Great British Railways

Colin Wheeler The media frenzy following the resignation of Boris Johnson temporarily overshadowed progress in answering the arguably more important question of where Great British...

Great Musgrave – The inside track

Graeme Bickerdike There are hundreds of old railway bridges much like the one at Great Musgrave in Cumbria’s Eden Valley. The structure emerged from the...

HS2 – Training on the job

Matt Atkins As one of the largest UK rail projects ever undertaken, HS2 is reliant on a deep reservoir of people power, and the mega-project...

Expert commentary: Intertrain – City & Guilds

The rail industry is estimated to require thousands of additional workers each year over the next decade in order to complete planned projects and...

Driving towards success

Matt Atkins The competition for train driving roles is incredibly high with hundreds, if not thousands, chasing each vacancy. The selection process is rigorous and...

Customer Service Stars

Excellent customer service is at the heart of any successful company. Clients return to companies which surpass their expectations and deliver an excellent experience....

Samaritans Lifesaver

It's true that all RailStaff Awards nominees are workplace heroes. Samaritans Lifesaver Award nominees and winners have even more justification for the title. In 2019,...

TransPennine Express welcomes new British Transport Police Liaison Officer

TransPennine Express (TPE) has welcomed a new British Transport Police (BTP) Liaison Officer to help keep the network as safe as possible for customers...

Bringing non-technical skills into the open

Safety incidents on the UK’s railway often have complex causes. They could be influenced by gaps in technical skills, like repairing track or operating...

GTR’s community project fund oversubscribed by £8 million in first year

‘Your Station, Your Community’, the £500,000 annual social and environmental improvement fund set up by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), has been hugely oversubscribed, attracting...

Balfour Beatty appoints UK Health, Safety and Environment Director

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, today announces the appointment of Lee Hewitt as UK Health, Safety and Environment Director. Lee will take up his...

Ramboll appoints Johnny Ojeil as Head of Transport Planning

Global engineering and consultancy company Ramboll has today announced the appointment of Johnny Ojeil to lead and enhance further its transport planning offer. Johnny is...

Changing the face of construction: EDI report shows HS2 continues to lead by example

HS2 has published its annual Equality, Diversity and Inclusion report. The report shows how the company delivering Britain’s new railway is continuing to challenge...

FirstClass Team continues to Expand with two new members

UK based Rail Depot Safety specialist, FirstClass Safety & Control, has added two new members to their team as project orders continue to come...

GHD strengthens UK transport offering with two new senior appointments

GHD, one of the world’s leading professional services companies, has made two new appointments to further strengthen its market-leading UK transport solutions offering and grow...

Greater Anglia thanks volunteers on Samaritans Awareness Day

Train operator Greater Anglia has thanked Samaritans volunteers for their life-saving work to mark the charity’s annual awareness campaign Talk To Us throughout July. Samaritans...