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HS2’s construction partner, Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV), is expanding its fast track job training programme to help local people start a new career in information management. BBV has already helped over 30 people to secure a job on HS2 through...

Workers at Dove Holes Quarry rail sidings at Peak Forest in Derbyshire are benefitting from a £600k investment to improve safety at the site as part of Network Rail's Freight Safety Improvement Portfolio (FSIP).   The two-year project saw the construction...

Rail body RSSB is publishing a new quarterly report which helps organisations get a better understanding of their health and wellbeing performance. Aimed at health, HR, and operational decision makers, the new report provides access to shared, aggregated data to...

Great Western Railway (GWR) has honoured World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing by including his name on its popular ‘Trainbow’ Intercity Express Train. Members of Turing’s family officially named the train at London Paddington station today (Thursday 26 May). The...

Rail logistics provider, DB Cargo UK, has launched a major new campaign in its ongoing drive to deliver safety excellence across all its operations. Called ‘Together. We’re Safer. Together. We’re DB’, the campaign explicitly empowers the company’s 2,200 colleagues to...

Shamit Gaiger has been appointed as the new managing director for West Coast Partnership Development and will join the business on 25 July. Shamit has extensive experience in the rail sector; with previous roles at the RSSB and Director of...

HS2’s construction partners have joined forces with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and Central and North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation Trust to support local people with disabilities and long term health conditions into training and...

RIA Scotland, the voice of the Scottish rail supply community, has announced a new Chair, Meirion Thomas of Arcadis, and Vice Chair, Campbell Braid of Siemens, to set the strategic direction of the group. RIA Scotland is the devolved national...

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has published its annual report covering the period 1 January to 31 December 2021. The report summarises operational and investigative activity undertaken by the Branch during the year. During 2021, 391 notifications were received...

More than 15,000 freight locomotives and wagons are to be fitted with technology that enables the condition of wheelsets – a pair of wheels mounted on an axle – to be monitored in real-time. The work is part of...