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Highlights from the current issue

Mind the skills gap
Recruitment of railway engineers needs to double over the next 20 years just to stand still. Gil Howarth explains how the National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering is tackling recruitment and training of technical staff

Infrarail opens its doors for the ninth time
Rail infrastructure show expected to draw 5,000 visitors to NEC

Buffing up the buffet cars
First Great Western is refurbishing some redundant old buffet cars to ease the worst overcrowding on Britain’s railways. Paul Clifton joins commuters in the morning crush, then sees the carriages being refitted by Wabtec in Scotland

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