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New Academy to offer pre-apprenticeship programme for young people

15 May 2025 Rail Insider 0

To help young people gain skills and take their first steps towards a career in rail, Network Rail has, in partnership with Capital City College in Enfield, launched a new learning academy that offers a […]

Neil McNicholas (left) is to retire as managing director of Unipart Rail. Dr David McGorman will head up Unipart’s Rail and Public Transport sector while continuing to lead Unipart’s technology and performance improvement capability offering to all of its sectors.
Appointments

Unipart – changes at the top

12 February 2025 Rail Insider 0

Unipart, the supply-chain solutions company, has made changes to its executive team. Neil McNicholas, managing director of Unipart Rail, is to retire in February 2025 and as a result has stepped down from his role […]

Andy Pyne has been appointed as chief sustainability officer at Unipart.
Appointments

Unipart appoints Andy Pyne as chief sustainability officer

11 September 2024 Rail Insider 0

Supply-chain solutions company Unipart has appointed Andy Pyne as chief sustainability officer, reporting to chief executive officer Darren Leigh. As a member of the executive leadership team, Andy will responsible for setting and delivering Unipart’s […]

Engineers digging lift shafts at Warwick station have encountered unexpected buried foundations
Health & Safety

Access improvements at Warwick station delayed by unexpected foundations

4 August 2023 Rail Insider 0

The discovery of unknown foundations below Warwick station has forced Network Rail engineers to rethink a project that is intended to provide step-free access to both platforms for the first time. As part of that […]

Associations

Tea room opens in restored Bricket Wood station building

2 August 2023 Rail Insider 0

The 1903 station building at Bricket Wood, on the Watford to St Albans Abbey branch line, has opened to the public as a tea room, having been closed and bricked up in the 1960s. Taken […]

Two young men were arrested inside a mail train and charged with theft
Governance

Police thwart attempt to steal mail from train

2 August 2023 Rail Insider 0

British Transport Police (BTP) officers were called to the line in Lockerbie at 01:42 on the morning f 1 August 2023) following reports that two young men had gained access to a Royal Mail train, […]

Jason McCartney MP (third left) visited the University of Huddersfield's Institute of Railway Research with the team from RIA North
Associations

West Yorkshire MP visits University of Huddersfield Institute of Railway Research

2 August 2023 Rail Insider 0

As part of the Railway Industry Association’s Rail Fellowship Programme, Jason McCartney, Conservative MP for Colne Valley in West Yorkshire, visited the Institute of Railway Research (IRR), a leading centre for railway engineering research linked […]

ORR has issued guidance on Safety Management Systems for minor and heritage railways
Governance

Rail regulator issues safety guidance for minor and heritage railways

1 August 2023 Rail Insider 0

Rail regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has released guidance that will help minor and heritage railways to interpret and apply the specific requirements of the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) […]

Two teenage boys were electrocuted over the same weekend in separate incidents in Scotland
Electrification

Two teenagers electrocuted over one weekend

1 August 2023 Rail Insider 0

Two teenagers were electrocuted in separate incidents on the railway in Scotland over the weekend of 29/30 July 2023, prompting urgent safety warnings from British Transport Police (BTP). On Saturday 29 July, shortly after 21:00, […]

Accident Investigation

£14 million in fines for 2016 fatal Croydon tram accident

27 July 2023 Rail Insider 0

Transport for London (TfL) has been fined £10 million and Tram Operations Limited (TOL) £4 million after pleading guilty at London’s Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) in London to offences under the Health and […]

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  • Battery train sets new world record
  • Paul McNerney to join Severfield from Laing O’Rourke
  • Mick Rayner appointed Non-Executive Director of RSSB
  • Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
  • Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
  • EMR driver training is a family affair
  • Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
  • New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
  • Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target
British Steel Christmas 2019 Crossrail HS2 London Overground London Underground Network Rail Northern Ireland Northern Powerhouse RAIB Scotland TfL Trako Unipart USA Wales West Midlands
  • Phil Mortimer: A recent funded R&D project focused on the use of alternatives to steel for the ohl masts. This has several…
  • Nigel: Fully support this restoration from the East Lancashire side,existing infrastructure mostly well built and promises a highly efficient 12 mile…
  • Clive Broadhead: After the undoubtedly achievement of resurrecting the railways in Scotland why are the current NR management he'll bent on squandering…
  • 230001 sets out on its record-breaking run from Reading station.
  • Paul McNerney will leave Laing O'Rourke to take over as CEO of Severfield in the autumn of 2025.
  • Mick Rayner, managing director of Balfour Beatty's rail business, is joining the RSSB Board as non-executive director representing infrastructure contractors.
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
  • Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
    Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
    7 August 2025 0
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
    Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
    7 August 2025 0
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
    EMR driver training is a family affair
    7 August 2025 0
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
    Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
    1 August 2025 0
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
    31 July 2025 0
  • Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
    New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
    31 July 2025 0
  • Unipart has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, detailing its roadmap to meeting its Net Zero 2040 target.
    Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target
    30 July 2025 0
  • Arriva will restore train connections to communities in Poland’s Kujawsko-Pomorskie region from December 2026.
    Arriva to revive two regional routes in Poland
    30 July 2025 0
  • Tony Lodge of the Centre for Policy Studies has written a report entitled Rail’s Last Chance: A four-point plan to save the railways
    Warning that Great British Railways risks repeating the mistakes of British Rail
    29 July 2025 0
  • The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) went into administration on 1 July 2025.
    BCIMO sold to Dudley Council
    23 July 2025 0
  • Senior railway engineer helps vulnerable people and the NHS during Coronavirus epidemic
    21 May 2020 0
  • Excavated remains from site of HS2’s Euston station to be reburied in Surrey
    16 September 2020 0
  • First Class 170 in East Midlands Railways livery arrives in Nottingham
    1 May 2020 1
  • SWGR appoints Raj Sinha as group managing director
    3 August 2020 0
  • Study to consider extending Crossrail to Ebbsfleet
    26 September 2020 2
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