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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...

College win for Bombardier apprentice

An apprentice engineer at Bombardier’s heavy maintenance depot in Crewe has been crowned Reaseheath College’s ‘Engineering Apprentice of the Year’. Liam Barnett, 21, from Biddulph,...

Technically speaking

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is looking for the Technician of the Year - entries are open until the end of May. It...

Ninjas of the yellow trains

'Like little ninjas,' said Katie Tingle, describing her team's role within Network Rail. 'If you can be a little ninja in a big yellow...

Lost in transition

Getting the job can sometimes be the easy part. It’s settling in that can often be tricky. Simple things like getting your uniform and...

High Speed Skills

The opening of HS2’s headquarters in Birmingham last month was another important date in the project’s long, and at times difficult, timeline. Birmingham is at...

Graduate approach

'I always had the vision that I wanted to go into project management,' said Mel Gibson - a senior project manager at telent, who...

Kellingley 7

Seven miners, made redundant when Kellingley Colliery in Beal, North Yorkshire, closed down last December, are fighting their collective misfortune by training for a new...

What it takes to be a… train driver

Rail’s remarkable recent growth means there is no shortage of opportunities to pursue a career on the metals. And while some areas of the industry...

Apprentice power for new railways

As the new Borders Railway smashes passenger projections, new stations open and leading companies expand their use of rail freight, the government has announced...

A running start

Last year was a rollercoaster year for the rail industry. Mired by the pausing of several modernisation projects, there was an air of uncertainty surrounding...

Soldiers tackle railway skills gap

The rail industry makes a good successor career for military personnel looking for further challenge and adventure: That’s the message from rail chiefs and...

An Orange Christmas

Four students from Newcastle College’s Rail Academy spent Christmas working on the railway. It’s a fact not often appreciated by the armies of commuters, passengers...

NTAR – First through the door…

Some of the first to use NTAR’s modern facilities will be a group of 12 trainees from Baltic Training Services (BTS). The trainee programme is...

NSARE losing its E

The National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering (NSARE) is planning to drop the E in its name - a reflection, it says, of the...

My year in rail

Award-winning student Elizabeth Palmer talks about her gap year spent with Network Rail and gives her thoughts on how work placements can benefit students...

Training for today and tomorrow

Story’s Tom Wall talks about how a new purpose-built training facility is driving up standards within the company and the industry. Training is a vital...

ISS Labour opens Salford training centre

A new rail training centre in Greater Manchester will train more than 10,000 people by 2020, says owner ISS Labour. The facility in Salford, which...