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Festive track upgrades at Leeds station to boost reliability – passengers reminded to plan ahead
Image credits: Network Rail Engineers will remodel the track layout between platforms 4 and 6 over Christmas as part of a project to boost reliability and reduce the impact of [...]
HS2 embraces off-site manufacturing for first three ‘pre-fab’ green tunnels
Major contract win for Derbyshire-based Stanton Precast set to create up to 100 local jobs at new production facility in Ilkeston. Three ‘green tunnels’ to be built off-site and assembled [...]
Legrand IP55 Trunking for Northern’s Largest Rail Depot
Image credits: Legrand Northern’s largest rail depot, at Newton Heath has recently undergone a complete renovation to increase the maintenance capacity for the region. The building has been designed to [...]
Work starts on new Black Country railway station
From left: Malcolm Holmes, TfWM director of rail, Eddie Hughes MP, Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street and Emily Shaw, senior project manager West Midlands Rail Executive Work has [...]
Howe Green and DMC Contracts create strong foundations at Whitechapel Elizabeth line station
As an important interchange for both the Hammersmith & City and District Lines and London Overground, Whitechapel station will be an integral element of the Elizabeth line, with services running [...]
HS2 pioneers UK-first ‘box-slide’ bridge over the M42 in North Warwickshire
Image credits: HS2 Work to start on ‘Marston Box’ bridge which will carry HS2 over the M42 First hi-tech ‘box slide’ of its kind over a motorway in the UK [...]
Rock and Rail: 8,000 tonnes of ‘rock armour’ installed to protect the future of flood-prone borders’ railway
Image credits: Network Rail Multi-million-pound investment on the railway between Hereford and Abergavenny to combat bad weather and minimise passenger disruption An increase in extreme weather, over the past two [...]
Transport for the North in talks with Network Rail on rail reform
Image credits: Transport for the North ‘North in strong position to be a ‘pathfinder’ for new Great British Railways model’ Leaders from across the North of England will tomorrow (Wednesday [...]
Regular passenger services to Okehampton resume for first time in nearly 50 years
Image credits: Network Rail Today (Saturday 20 November 2021) marks the return of regular train services on the Dartmoor Line between Exeter and Okehampton, for the first time in almost [...]
Record turnout for Rail Wellbeing Live 2021
Image credits: Network Rail Over 16,000 people from 600 organisations took part in Rail Wellbeing Live 2021, the rail industry’s biggest event dedicated to health and wellbeing Fearne Cotton, Jason [...]
Solihull school secures £72,000 grant from HS2 Community & Environment Fund
Image credits: HS2 John Henry Newman Catholic School in Chelmsley Wood will use the funding from HS2 to improve the health and wellbeing of students, offering employment support, skills and [...]
Railway workers join forces to tidy up Marston Vale line station
Image credits: Network Rail Railway workers and community volunteers have joined forces to tidy up Ridgmont station as the Marston Vale line prepares to celebrate its 175th anniversary. A six-strong team [...]
Staffs’ Wardell Armstrong welcome HS2 CEO to see progress on route between West Midlands and Crewe
Image credits: HS2 Multidisciplinary environmental, engineering and mining consultancy, Wardell Armstrong, has today [Wednesday 17 November] welcomed Mark Thurston - HS2 Ltd's CEO - to a worksite where a team [...]
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Small plant operative training that reduces time off the job by 30 per cent
Alex Pond, Managing Director of Intertrain describes the Small Plant blended learning programme being offered by Kineo and Intertrain Many [...]
Railway Chaplains – trained or called?
Barry Brown, Railway Mission Trustee for People issues, describes how Railway Chaplains are trained Being a Railway Chaplain is a [...]
Health and wellbeing through yoga
Yoga pose photo credit: Adele Baron Photography In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, championing employees’ health and wellbeing has [...]
Training across rail and infrastructure
Davie Carns, Managing Director of National Infrastructure Solutions explains why a flexible and sustainable approach will help address the skills [...]
New depths for digital design
The successful opening of the Northern Line extension to Battersea Power Station is testament to the growing capabilities of digital [...]
Work-related violence
I was just standing there, waiting for the 12:43, when this bloke came up and started shouting his head [...]
Interview – Andy Knight, Managing Director of Signet Solutions
Sam Sherwood-Hale spoke to Andy Knight, Managing Director of Signet Solutions about his experiences as a Signalling Engineer, the skills [...]
Interview – Dr Stephen Fletcher, Director of the Occupational Psychology Centre
Sam Sherwood-Hale spoke to Dr Stephen Fletcher, Director and Occupational Psychologist at the Occupational Psychology Centre (OPC) and OPC Assessment [...]