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Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre hosts Network Rail Major Incident Training

Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre has hosted Network Rail’s major incident training involving multi-agency partners and Emergency Services, to exercise the response to a major incident on the railway.

Amey Rail Limited fined £533,000 following electrical shock injury to worker

Amey Rail Limited (ARL) has been fined £533,000 after pleading guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974,...

Rail industry launches immersive VR experience to encourage bystander reporting to combat sexual harassment

An immersive virtual reality (VR) experience will be launched at Waterloo Station between 10am-4pm on Thursday 6th April by the rail industry and British...

RSSB publishes 2023-24 business plan

The rail industry is under substantial pressure. Wider economic challenges, high energy costs, skills shortages, the pandemic, industrial relations, and the prospect of sector...

Greater Anglia announces that Brandon station eastbound platform has re-opened

Trains are able to call at the eastbound platform at Brandon again after it was closed for safety reasons. All trains scheduled to stop at...

Taziker wins internationally recognised health and safety accolade

Taziker has scooped a prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for the third year, demonstrating its commitment to health and safety excellence. The RoSPA Health and Safety...

Make it Visible Taskforce Tackles Wellbeing in Construction

More than 150 people from across the construction industry have volunteered to help a national drive to stop suicide and improve the welfare and...

Missing young girls found by train conductor on-board Northern service

A quick-thinking train conductor has helped return two missing young girls to their home in Blackpool. Paul Wilkinson, who works for Northern, found the girls,...

c2c Unveils New Train to Promote British Transport Police App

c2c has launched a brand new train wrapped in support of British Transport Police’s ‘Railway Guardian’ app.  The train, which features eye-catching graphics promoting the...

Tyne and Wear’s new £362m train fleet will have defibrillators on board

The Tyne and Wear Metro’s new train fleet is to have life-saving defibrillators in every driver’s cab. Nexus, the public body which owns and manages...

South Western Railway to install defibrillators at all of its staffed stations

South Western Railway (SWR) is to install publicly accessible automated external defibrillators at all 154 of the staffed stations on its network. The train operator,...

Teamwork helps to stop trespass in North Yorkshire

A new passcode-protected gate is helping to keep people off the tracks at a level crossing in North Yorkshire, after Network Rail worked with...
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Four things to consider when investing in eco-friendly welfare equipment

A guest writer feature from Andy Grayshon, commercial director at Welfare Hire The rail industry is working to reach carbon net zero by 2050 (as...

Carstairs Junction fully reopened

Network Rail has completed a 12-week phased programme of work to remodel Carstairs junction. All lines through the key junction on the West Coast main...

South Wales Metro electrification update

Transport for Wales has successfully completed the first phase of electrification on the South Wales Metro and progressed with station transformation and signalling work.   The...

A ‘freight’ way to promote Martin House Children’s Hospice

The name of Martin House Children’s Hospice will soon be seen across the lengthand breadth of the UK after a newly-liveried locomotive was unveiled...