Rail jobs, staff issues and training

‘Quick-thinking’ ScotRail employee nominated for lifesaver award

10 October 2019Today (October 10), on World Mental Health Day, a ScotRail employee has been nominated for a top award after his rapid response to noticing and helping a vulnerable person. Christopher Harvie, customer service team leader, has been nominated for...

Virgin Trains to increase number of body cameras worn by staff

09 October 2019Virgin Trains, the first UK train operator to equip all frontline teams with body worn cameras, are rolling out 250 more across the network. Station staff and on-board teams have another layer of protection with body worn cameras issued to a furt...

Rail college rebrand to reflect growing demand of rail sector

01 October 2019The National College for High Speed Rail is getting a fresh new look, after it announced today that it is rebranding to the National College for Advanced Transport & Infrastructure (NCATI). The college has been serving the rail industry&rsquo...

New rail testing scheme launched for small businesses

25 September 2019Businesses in the West Midlands are being offered subsidised access to test and trial facilities as a way to boost railway innovation. The University of Birmingham has joined forces with Quinton Rail Technology Centre (QRTC) to offer access to th...

Get into Railway celebrates five years and £1.6m success

23 September 2019The formidable partnership between Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) and The Prince’s Trust have announced today (23 September) that their Get into Railway training programme has generated £1.6m since it was set up in 2014. GTR, the UK&r...

Network Rail confirms route director appointments

16 September 2019 Today (Monday 16 September) will see Network Rail’s 14 new routes go live. Meanwhile, the company directors each have confirmed a number of senior management appointments to their teams. This comes after the announcement of...

Investing in the country’s future workforce

05 September 2019Clair Mowbray, chief executive of the National College for High Speed Rail, talks about addressing the skills gap and investing in new talent across the transport sector. With the UK rail and engineering industries facing a critical skills shorta...

LATC chair calls for better BAME representation in rail industry

12 July 2019Florence Eshalomi AM, Chair of the London Assembly Transport Committee, has called for the rail industry to better represent the people it serves. She made the call at the Railway Industry Association (RIA) and Young Rail Professionals TrailBlaze...

RAIB calls for review of zero-hours contracts for rail workers

11 July 2019The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) have released their findings into the fatal accident between London Victoria and Three Bridge in November 2018. The investigation found track worker was hit by a train in the earlier hours of the morn...

Transport apprenticeships’ BAME representation increases over 50%

11 July 2019A report published today shows that the number of transport apprentices from under-represented BAME backgrounds have increased in the past two years. The initiative to increase diversity in the workforce is being led by the Strategic Transport Ap...

Network Rail launches safety task force

10 July 2019Network Rail has launched a new task force to improve safety measures for employees that work on the railways, the company announced today. The team of safety experts, expected to cost £70m, will bring together multiple strands of work from...

Network Rail submits indicative bid for troubled British Steel

01 July 2019Railway infrastructure company Network Rail have submitted an indicative bid to take over parts of British Steel in an attempt to save the troubled business. The state-owned company are concerned about disruption to the rail network if British St...

Increasing passenger confidence and accessibility with the Rail Delivery Group

25 June 2019The Rail Delivery Group plans to make travelling by train easier than ever before by making trains and stations more accessible and developing a new app. Robert Nisbet, Director of Regions and Nations at the Rail Delivery Group, tells June/July R...

Diversity, inclusion and marking 100 years of Women in Engineering

24 June 2019One hundred years on from the birth of the Women in Engineering Society (WES), members of the rail and wider engineering industry gathered today at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. A lot has changed since those days of World War One...

Leading Women in Rail campaigner Anna Delvecchio honoured with portrait plaque at London Transport Museum

20 June 2019Anna Delvecchio, the Rail Sector Deal co-lead and Amey’s commercial account director, has received unique recognition from the Rail Supply Group with a portrait of her unveiled at the London Transport Museum. Sir Peter Hendy, chairman of Ne...