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Interfleet fields top training team

Interfleet’s Training and Competence Solutions team is one of the most recognised and respected training providers within the rail industry. With the largest assembled team...

Govia backs Customer Service

Govia is sponsoring the Outstanding Customer Service Award at this year’s RailStaff Awards. The keenly contested award recognises the men and women demonstrating the best...

Taking you to the top

Smart personnel are the most important element of any company. In the rail industry, in particular, they represent their firm at every level and are...

Tunnel aid for Wallasea Island

One of Europe’s largest wetland wild life projects is emerging in Essex thanks to Crossrail. Wallasea Island, on the River Crouch, near the Thames Estuary,...

Track partnership in training exercise

While the world’s focus has been on the Olympics based in East London, a major training exercise has been conducted in West London. A collaboration...

Coats and ‘Ats! – Colin Garratt reflects on the fall and rise of Britain’s tramways

Colin Garratt Director of Milepost 92½ Reports...  The golden age of British trams represents a glorious phase in transport history. It was a time when towns and...

Safety by leadership, delegation and motivation or training? – And why site visits are so important

Colin Wheeler Reports... Using precious time, adding little value? A lecture is to be given in Westminster next month titled “Safety and Simplicity” focussed on what...

Westward Ho! – Andy Milne talks to Vernon Barker, managing director of FirstGroup’s Rail Division

FirstGroup’s Rail Division is run from Macmillan House on Paddington Station but also has a quiet set of offices across the road on Eastbourne...

Hong Kong coup for Mechan

Mechan, the Sheffield-based depot equipment manufacturer has fitted a bogie press at MTR’s Pat Heung depot in Hong Kong, to complement the one installed...

Flood train rescues Wensleydale motorists

In the recent bad weather, staff at the Wensleydale Railway came to the rescue of stranded motorists. As flood waters cut off parts of Wensleydale...

High noon at Marsham Street

Few will have observed Richard Brown slipping through a grey and windy Whitehall to begin his enquiry into the shortcomings of franchise re-letting. No triumphant...

Energy award for East Coast

East Coast has won an award for reducing energy use at its stations, depots and offices. The company has been awarded the Gold Carbon Saver...

What is the Rail Accident Investigation Branch?

Continuing our series looking at people and organisations in the rail industry, RailStaff asks the question: What do they do? So far, this series has...

Rail Vehicle Enhancements 2012

All train operators strive to improve their passenger experience. Comfortable and happy passengers are likely to travel again, and it is a major way...

We’re in your corner

In January 2010 a pioneering Samaritans and Network Rail partnership launched, covering the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales, with the overall aim...

BridgeZone backs Rail Engineer of the Year

Leading difficult-to-access inspection specialist BridgeZone Ltd, is backing the Rail Engineer of the Year at the RailStaff Awards. “The rail industry is keen to attract,...

Ridout races for Railway Children

Andy Ridout, Managing Director of advance-TRS, has started training to compete in the Norseman Xtreme Triathlon in Norway next August - all because of...

Welcome to the Show!

Civil engineering is heavy work. Whether it is digging ditches, moving muck, removing rocks, shifting sand, carrying concrete, grading gravel or levelling the landscape...