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Ahead of National Apprenticeship Week (5-11 February), Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has revealed a sharp increase in the number of females starting an apprenticeship. GTR welcomed a total of 176 new starters in 2023, with 60 of these coming...

Siemens Mobility has secured a £47 million contract with HS2 to provide a fully integrated station information management system across all HS2 stations, Curzon Street, Interchange, Old Oak Common and Euston. Siemens Mobility’s Digital Station Manager technology, which is already...

Network Rail has completed a multi-million-pound programme of engineering upgrades across Scotland over the festive period, which will improve reliability and punctuality for passengers and freight customers. A key junction at Greenhill near Falkirk on the Edinburgh-Glasgow main line was...

Network Rail enployee Zoe Sookun has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to the railway through her work in project managing the delivery of the Rail Aid for Ukraine project.  Zoe project managed the £10m Network Rail aid...

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has announced that one of its deputy chief inspectors with a lengthy career in engineering and safety will succeed Ian Prosser CBE in the summer as HM chief inspector of railways. Richard Hines,...

The great and good of the Rail Industry gathered at Birmingham’s NEC last night (Thursday 30 November) for the RailStaff Awards 2023. After another eventful 12 months for Rail, all were there to celebrate the outstanding efforts of the industry’s...

New technology developed by Siemens Mobility that makes battery charging and 25kV power supply possible in areas of the UK railway where overhead line equipment is not currently available is to be installed at Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation...

New figures show that thousands of UK businesses have won contracts to support the high-speed line's construction. Latest quarterly data shows that over £11.5 billion worth of tier two contracts have been awarded by HS2’s construction partners to businesses...

After more than two years of industry and stakeholder engagement and analysis, the Office of Road and Rail (ORR), the independent regulator that oversees Network Rail's activity, today announced its final determination. This sets out what the ORR expects to...

Rail passengers and local people in Buckinghamshire are being thanked for their patience during a ten-week project to move a section of railway between Aylesbury and Princes Risborough to make way for Britain’s new high-speed line, HS2. The work involved replacing...