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National College for High Speed Rail officially launches

The National College for High Speed Rail has officially opened its doors following ceremonies at its Doncaster and Birmingham campuses. Yesterday two of HS2's greatest...

Alstom launches new academy for rail in Widnes

Alstom said it is building a new generation of highly skilled rail engineers with the official launch of its academy in Widnes. Over the course...

Apprentice value in the South Wales Valleys

The stirring beauty of the Welsh valleys can appear to mask the challenging mix of social issues faced by the region’s former mining towns...

Building HS2’s high-speed workforce

HS2 is moving from concept to reality. Achieving royal assent was a green light for construction to begin on the London to Birmingham high-speed...

The Prince’s Trust scheme helps disadvantaged youngsters begin a career in the rail industry

Making the first step onto the career ladder can seem a daunting task if you are a jobseeker. The endless job applications, the need for...

Tunnel vision goes national

London's Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy (TUCA) is to expand and fulfil a national role at the cutting edge of Britain’s burgeoning rail engineering...

Gender, skills and shortages – How much progress is being made?

For a day in March, International Women’s Day and National Apprenticeship week coincided, giving much-needed prominence to two recurring areas of debate for the...

Students go loco

Twelve teams of student engineers will compete to build the best locomotive at this year’s Railway Challenge held by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers...

Year of the apprentice

In striving to raise the number and standard of apprentices, the rail industry has inadvertently made 2016 the Year of the Apprentice. This first became clear...

Trailblazer apprenticeship standard launched

The National Training Academy for Rail (NTAR), in partnership with Siemens, South West Trains and Fareham CEMAST, has become one of the first rail...

Expansion for rail apprenticeships

Network Rail is to expand its award winning Advanced Apprenticeship Scheme. The company has pledged to recruit 140 new apprentices to start training in March...

Northern powerhouse turns apprenticeship hub

‘This is the start. This is the start of your career… Set your own targets, set your own goals,’ said the Mayor of Doncaster,...

Why I became a signalling apprentice

Pulling cable through the interconnected tunnels of London Overground’s East London Line while most people are asleep is a world apart from the predictable...

Apprentices join steam team

Engineering apprentices have been helping the team at Darlington Locomotive Works build new steam locomotive No. 2007 Prince of Wales. The apprentices, from Virgin Trains,...

Great Western energised

Network Rail and its industry partners are electrifying 380 kilometres of track in total between Maidenhead and Swansea - the first major electrification scheme...

The life of an apprentice on Crossrail

It is difficult to precisely quantify the contribution made by apprentices. Spread so widely and embedded so deeply there are probably few major programmes...

Women in Engineering – Learning from the past

There was a time when women ruled the railway. By the end of the First World War, an estimated 70,000 women worked on the...

Rail Week: Bridging the rail skills gap

Following the rousing success that was the 2016 Young Rail Professionals’ Annual Dinner, all focus is now on the organisation and delivery of the...