Stewart Thorpe

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 (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...

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...

‘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 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, 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 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...

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...

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...

The UK’s congested railways are becoming increasingly reliant on digital technology, with many rail operators choosing innovative software-based solutions over new infrastructure, which is often costly and disruptive to install.  With more than 30 years’ experience in the rail sector,...