Stewart Thorpe

Greater Anglia invites young people for January placement scheme

Greater Anglia is again inviting young adults to apply for a dedicated scheme to boost their employability – with just a week to go before applications close for the January 2024 course. The Customer Service and Pre-employment Study Programme is...

Infinitive Group to take on graduates as part of a wider recruitment drive

Infinitive Group is excited to announce that we are offering graduate-level opportunities to start in early 2023. We have just kicked off the recruitment drive for 2 graduates led by our recruitment talent partner Jo Hall at Selective. Our Graduates will...

West Midlands Railway urges passengers to plan ahead of October industrial action

West Midlands Railway (WMR) passengers are being urged to plan ahead of three days of industrial action in October. Members of the ASLEF, RMT and TSSA unions have announced their intention to stage industrial action on Saturday 1 October. ASLEF...

University of Birmingham and RazorSecure sign agreement to collaborate and partner to accelerate, improve and address rail cyber security

The University of Birmingham’s Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with rail cyber security company, RazorSecure, establishing a strategic partnership on addressing railway system cyber security. The signing took place at...

Reward offered after Northern driver injured by brick thrown at train

‘Stop taking risks on the railway’. That’s the message from Northern after a driver was injured by a brick thrown at one of the rail operator’s trains.   The incident happened as the train travelled towards Clifton on Friday 4th February at...

Greater Anglia’s new train scoops gold in independent industry awards

Greater Anglia’s new three-carriage bi-mode train was crowned “most reliable train of its type” in independent industry awards based on reliability statistics. Greater Anglia, along with their maintenance partner Stadler, scooped two industry reliability awards for the train operator’s new...

Network Rail joins passengers at Leicester station to tackle trespass and vandalism

Network Rail, East Midlands Railway, CrossCountry and British Transport Police joined passengers at Leicester station as part of a scheme to tackle trespass and vandalism on the railway. Teams spoke to passengers and people in the community about the dangers...

Network Rail using innovative fibre-optic technology to boost railway safety and performance

Network Rail has awarded a contract to a consortium led by Thales Ground Transportation Systems Ltd to develop and trial Fibre Optic Acoustic Sensing (FOAS) technology that will support improvements in safety and performance on the railway. FOAS technology will...

Translink video promotes level crossing safety in Northern Ireland

Promoting the safe use of level crossings in Northern Ireland is a priority for Translink, which maintains 300 miles of rail track, including many bridges, level crossings and signals, as well as operating a fleet of 1400 buses, coaches...

Review: The Rail Safety Summit 2019

This year’s event was the tenth annual Safety Summit. Nonetheless a number of themes featured in the first Safety Summit are evidently still with us. This year’s host was Nicola Uijen who is the HSQE director for Network Rail’s...

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ORR review leads to 50% reduction in maximum fees for ticket refunds

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