Rail News
Calling all schools: Join EMR’s Rail Safety Pathways Program today!
East Midlands Railway (EMR) has launched a new program designed to promote rail safety education among primary and secondary school students.
The Rail Safety Pathway, which is being run in partnership with Network Rail, is a comprehensive three-tiered toolkit aimed...
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Network Rail appoints new capital delivery director for Wales and Western region
Network Rail’s Wales and Western region today announced Tim Walden as its new capital delivery director.
Tim joins from the company’s Southern region, where he has held the role of capital delivery director since June 2022.
A driving force behind the...
Careers
From Sonar to Signals: How Helen’s career changed track
From tracking enemy submarines to tracking LNER trains, former Royal Navy Petty Officer Helen Firth is finding there are some surprising similarities between working on an anti-submarine frigate and working in the Rail Operations Centre in York.
Helen, who has...
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Joanne Maguire appointed ScotRail Managing Director
Scottish Rail Holdings today announced that Joanne Maguire has been appointed interim Managing Director of ScotRail following Alex Hynes’ two-year secondment to the UK Government Department for Transport.
The appointment will be effective from Monday, 15 April 2024.
Network Rail has...
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Balfour Beatty appoints Steve O’Sullivan as Project Director for HS2’s new super-hub station
Balfour Beatty today announces the appointment of Steve O’Sullivan as Project Director with responsibility for Balfour Beatty VINCI SYSTRA’s HS2 Old Oak Common station project. Steve replaces Nigel Russell, who was promoted to Chief Executive Officer of Balfour Beatty’s...
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Network Rail appoints new directors to its executive leadership team
Network Rail has today announced two new directors who will join its executive leadership team, filling roles made vacant by recent moves and secondments.
Appointed to the vacant role of group director, system operator, is Anit Chandarana who returns to...
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Greater Anglia to boost university students’ skills through industrial placement scheme
Greater Anglia is offering university students the chance to gain skills and experience for a year through its industrial placement scheme.
The company, which runs trains from London Liverpool Street to destinations across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, is...
Industry News
Network Rail announces appointment of three new non-executive directors to its Board
Network Rail has today (Tuesday, 9 April) announced the appointment of three new non-executive directors to its Board.
Dyan Perry OBE (nee Crowther), Steve Scrimshaw and Stuart Harvey will join the Board from July, and will be bringing with them...
General Interest
Levenmouth Academy pupils welcome Rail Link project for STEM education
Levenmouth rail link engineers visited Levenmouth Academy to deliver a day of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workshops last week.
The engineers, working to deliver the new Levenmouth branch line, visited the school’s extended support department to give students...
Accessibility
TPE launches new initiative to help neurodiverse passengers build travel confidence
TransPennine Express (TPE) has launched its new Social Stories aimed at enhancing the travel experience for individuals with autism, learning disabilities, and social anxieties.
Social Stories are narrative descriptions and graphics of everyday situations, designed to help individuals understand social...
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Labour pledges to renationalise rail: reaction
The Labour party has set out its plan for rail, ahead of this year’s general election, with pledges to...