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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...

Overground celebrates five years

London Overground has celebrated its fifth birthday, just a few weeks short of completing its final extension across south London, creating an orbital railway...

London Transport Museum inspires young engineers

Rowan Joachim, a Transport for London Project Leader on the London Underground Crossrail Team, recently helped welcome sixty children from schools in Enfield to...

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...

Future beckons for rail freight

When the rail industry was privatised rail freight, like the rest of the business, was scheduled for quiet decline. BR had four main freight companies...

Taking ownership: Privatisation and the rail industry

Andy Milne considers the success of the mix of individual staff power with private sector dash as the rail industry prepares for more change...

Christmas confidence boosts railways

The appointment of a director general to an expanded HS2 Ltd, investment in London Underground developments at Battersea and the Olympic Park and the...

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...

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway resumes service

After raising £1 million and rebuilding two collapsed embankments, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway resumed full service on 30th October and ran a special train...

On the road

Network Rail’s first preference is to transport goods by rail. In a bid to minimise road movements Network Rail is to build a 300,000 square...

Time to improve rail safety by cutting down on ‘essential paperwork’

My memory is long enough for me to remember when engineers used slide rules and mechanical/electrical calculating machines. We generated far less paperwork than...

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...

James Lloyd wins recruiter/HR Award

James Lloyd of London Underground has won this year’s Recruiter HR of the Year Award. James has been at the forefront of initiatives aimed at...

RailStaff Awards span rail industry

Armed gangsters and flappers in feather boas welcomed guests to this year’s RailStaff Awards at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. The theme of the...

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...

NSARE recommendations provide framework for better engineering training

The National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering’s report on the state of training in the railway engineering sector could not have come at a...

Consultancy brought in to kickstart Flying Scotsman restoration

The National Railway Museum has appointed railway engineering consultancy firm, First Class Partnerships, to provide independent advice on how best to progress the delayed...