Network Rail Infrastructure Projects has made sustainability a formal part of its procurement process, with five per cent of tenders now hinging on a...
Dubbed the world’s most romantic metro system, the Paris Metro has turned to an unromantic factory in Market Harborough to keep its passengers moving...
Keith Ludeman, former chief executive of the Go-Ahead Group, has joined new international business, Network Rail Consulting, as a non-executive director.
Network Rail Consulting, a...
The Young Railway Professionals (YRP) has launched a brand new website with a social network at its heart.
www.youngrailwayprofessionals. org – took its inspiration from...
Network Rail has seen 18 of its former apprentices graduate from Sheffield Hallam University with higher national certificates (HNC) in railway engineering this November.
In...
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...
London Overground has celebrated its fifth birthday, just a few weeks short of completing its final extension across south London, creating an orbital railway...
Rowan Joachim, a Transport for London Project Leader on the London Underground Crossrail Team, recently helped welcome sixty children from schools in Enfield to...
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...
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...
The appointment of a director general to an expanded HS2 Ltd, investment in London Underground developments at Battersea and the Olympic Park and the...
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...
After raising £1 million and rebuilding two collapsed embankments, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway resumed full service on 30th October and ran a special train...
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...
