Unipart Rail and Thomson Engineering Design Ltd announce partnership

Unipart Rail has formed a strategic partnership with Thomson Engineering Design Ltd, to deliver transformative solutions which improve the safety, productivity, and efficiency of railway maintenance and repair projects, worldwide. Thomson Engineering Design Ltd has been at the forefront of...

Porterbrook completes purchase of Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre

Rolling stock financier and asset management company Porterbrook has agreed a deal with St Modwen to acquire the freehold of the Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre in Warwickshire. Porterbrook has been operating the site since June 2021, and already invested...

QTS Group announces new senior hires to bolster transport team

National rail contractor, QTS Group, has bolstered its senior leadership team with two appointments. Allan Reid has been appointed in the role of group transport manager. Boasting three decades of experience in the transport industry, Allan spent more than 15...

MTR UK bids farewell to Steve Murphy

Steve Murphy, CEO of MTR UK, will be leaving MTR after 17 years of dedicated service to pursue other career goals. His last working day will be 29 March 2024. As MTR Elizabeth line’s inaugural managing director from 2014 and...

Electro-Wind Ltd celebrates 45th Anniversary

January 2024 is Electro-Wind Ltd.’s 45th Anniversary. Whilst the first generation started and developed the business for 20 years, the next generation, their current Directors have been committed to leading the company’s growth for the last 25 years. The company...

SVR confirms Jonathan ‘Gus’ Dunster as permanent managing director

The Severn Valley Railway has announced that it has approved the permanent appointment of Jonathan ‘Gus’ Dunster as managing director of SVR (Holdings) Plc with immediate effect. Gus has been fulfilling the role in an interim capacity since 1 March...

Specialist Rail Recruiter opens it’s doors as revenue soars

Specialist Recruiter Coleman James is celebrating the opening of its brand new Doncaster office, as it continues to accelerate its growth in the Rail sector.  2023 was a record year for the firm’s Rail division, which saw turnover grow by...

New British Steel rail stocking facility will boost Network Rail supply chain

British Steel is building a new £10 million rail stocking facility, the biggest of its kind in the country. The facility, at the company’s Scunthorpe site, is scheduled to be completed this summer and will stock around 25,000 tonnes of...

FirstGroup launches new ‘First connections’ advocate network

FirstGroup have launched a new advocate network, ‘First connections’, to bring together those who have taken part and benefitted from their personal development programmes aimed at women and ethnically diverse colleagues. The First connections network allows those who have taken...

Pandrol names new chief procurement officer

Xavier Sarrat has been appointed chief procurement officer for Pandrol, replacing Olivier Jullien who has taken on a new strategic role. A master of both the French National Business School for Higher Education in Management (HEC) and National School for...

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Network Rail and the Railway Children raise over £130,000 to help vulnerable children

Network Rail has teamed up with the charity Railway Children to host a fifth annual sleepout event in railway...