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Interfleet’s Training and Competence Solutions team is one of the most recognised and respected training providers within the rail industry. With the largest assembled team of trainers and assessors, Interfleet supports the industry with training and competence assurance in many disciplines. The methodology adopted by Interfleet Technology focuses on improving business performance through the development [...]

Govia is sponsoring the Outstanding Customer Service Award at this year’s RailStaff Awards. The keenly contested award recognises the men and women demonstrating the best examples of customer service skills often delivered in challenging and dramatic situations. However it also highlights the poise and professionalism of the many staff across the railways who help millions [...]

Metrolink fares are to rise by an average of four per cent from January 2013, Manchester's transport bosses have announced. The Transport for Greater Manchester Committee (TfGM) has said the increase will meet rising operating costs and support improvement programmes...

Mumbai rail passengers will see travel times between the Chhtraphati Shivaji Terminus (CST) and Panvel cut by more than half in 2019, with the opening of a new 51 km elevated corridor. The Maharashtra state government is working with Indian...

JSC Georgian Railway (GR) has purchased five new electric trains as part of a large-scale investment programme to replace the entire fleet of main line trains by the middle of 2013. Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CSR beat Bombardier, Skoda and...

Smart personnel are the most important element of any company. In the rail industry, in particular, they represent their firm at every level and are often the face, image and brand of the business. So if employers go to all the trouble of putting time and money into selecting the most desirable candidates, it makes [...]

One of Europe’s largest wetland wild life projects is emerging in Essex thanks to Crossrail. Wallasea Island, on the River Crouch, near the Thames Estuary, will be transformed from levee- protected farmland into thriving wetland using earth from the tunnels being bored under London. The new wetlands will be twice the size of the City [...]

This summer has undoubtedly been one that will go down in the history books. The Jubilee, the Olympics, the Paralympics – the eyes of the world has been on the UK. The doubters have been silenced, the Union Jacks flown, and the country displayed at its very best – the UK in summer 2012 was [...]

Pöyry's urban business group has been handed a five-year maintenance management contract for the Eastern Finland railway network. The firm will be responsible for the maintenance management of the railway, its structures and equipment, land areas and buildings owned by...

Rail freight needs to adopt a similar approach to the commercial airline industry if it's to fully recover from the 2009 crisis, an industry expert has said. The claims follow figures released by SCI Transport showing that European rail freight...