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Minister approves rail job apprenticeship scheme
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Minister for Postal Affairs and Employment, Lord Young, has expressed his approval for Tube Lines’ apprenticeship scheme.
In a recent visit to Tube Lines’ training centre he said: “Now more than ev...
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Tories make rail promises
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The Conservatives have made their latest pitch to win voters from the rail industry by promising to ‘build Crossrail’ and begin work on a north to south high speed rail line.
These promises were ma...
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ORR investigates rail job safety claims
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Rail union the RMT has claimed a small victory after Anna Walker, chair of the Office of Rail Regulation, wrote to Lord Adonis to confirm that they were investigating the safety implications of effici...
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Rat attack
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Network Rail has announced that it is going to have to spend millions on protecting wires and cables on from rodents.
The announcement came after a series of incidents involving delay and cancelled...
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Rail job worker becomes inventor
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Nexus employee Robin Shortt has used his previous experience of working down the mines to invent a new work belt.
The belt, which offers much support for the wearers’ lower back, along with offerin...
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High scores for First GBRf in rail job survey
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First Group, who run franchises such as First Scotrail and First Great Western, have released the results of one of their internal staff surveys, which name First GBRf as being the best employer.
T...
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Office of Rail Regulation to improve data quality
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The Office of Rail Regulation has announced that it is going to vastly improve the quality of data which it makes available for use by the UK rail industry.
The ORR, the organisation responsible fo...
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