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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...

Gold Standard for Games Trains

Railways have been praised for rising to the challenge of delivering 1000s of sports people and spectators to and from the 2012 Olympics in...

New team for transport

The new ministerial team at the DfT combines a former Staffordshire coal miner, an African educated historian with the continuing wisdom of Norman Baker...

Fhoss backs Railway Children

Staff at Fhoss Technologies have nominated the Railway Children as the company’s charity of the year. The company, based in Weston- super-Mare makes PPE, Personal...

Railway war victims remembered

Railway staff joined together to remember victims of a Luftwaffe bombing raid on Middlesbrough in the Second World War. On 4th August 1942, Middlesbrough railway...

French blast Rihanna over rail riot

French rail chiefs have called Rihanna irresponsible after she tweeted her arrival time and platform at Gare du Nord in Paris. In the ensuing riot...

Viegas to head forum

Internationally renowned academic, José Viegas of Portugal, is the new Secretary-General of the International Transport Forum. ‘I am delighted to come to this job at...