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Rail Wellbeing Live 2021 is the rail industry’s largest free health and wellbeing event is returning next month on 17th – 18th November 2021. Television presenter Fearne Cotton and former footballer and pundit Paul Merson are the latest speakers to be announced for Rail Wellbeing Live which will run virtually over two days (17 to […]

Over 16,000 people from across the rail industry took part in Rail Wellbeing Live on 17th & 18th November, the industry’s biggest health and wellbeing event. It is still possible for more of the rail industry to get involved as all sessions are free to watch online on-demand until Thursday 2 December. Access is available

Many people working in rail start with an apprenticeship. This allows you to: Combine on-the-job training with classroom learning. Study from intermediate (GCSE equivalent) to degree level. Earn at least the National Minimum Wage while you train. Apprenticeships take between one and six years to complete, and there’s several types of apprenticeships. Finding the right

Members of Britain’s rail youth community partnership were given the chance to ride on the UK’s first hydrogen-fuelled train to and from Glasgow at COP26. Youngsters from the 6VT Community Rail Partnership, based in Edimnburgh, boarded the HydroFLEX train along with Jools Townsend, chief executive of Community Rail Network. Created in a project headed by

Network Rail’s Commercial and Procurement (C&P) team has reached an important milestone in partnering with suppliers to tackle climate change by securing commitments from 50% of suppliers to join the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce their carbon footprint. Science Based Targets are a key part of Network Rail’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy to deliver

Amey Consulting’s new Environmental Practitioner Apprenticeship Programme will develop key environmental skills and build capacity to deliver sustainable net zero infrastructure. The programme gives school leavers the opportunity to work towards an Environmental Management degree while gaining experience in Amey Consulting’s Environment and Sustainability team. The five-year, fully funded course took in its first cohort

VolkerRail’s major projects director, Stuart Birch, is to take part in a digital webinar, on Wednesday 16 June, to discuss equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) within the rail industry and the steps we still need to take to make the sector a more inclusive environment. The event, hosted by the Rail Technology Magazine (RTM), will

HS2 Marketplace, which launches today (1 November 2021), is designed to support companies of all sizes who are engaged in HS2’s supply chain by equipping them with the tools they need to embed Diversity and Inclusion best practice across their business processes. The platform is designed and backed by the Clear Company, who earlier this

Porterbrook, the rolling stock owner and asset manager, has been named Transport Sector Leader in the annual Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) assessment, where real estate and infrastructure organisations across the world are compared based on their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. Established in 2009, GRESB has become the leading ESG benchmark for

Network Rail have worked in collaboration with Amey’s rail team to create a new overhead line tunnel drill, the first of its kind, that not only improves operational delivery but the safety of the operatives working at height. Network Rail first noticed potential areas for improvement working with Amey on CP6 tunnel refurbishments that require