Diversity

Train operator Northern is calling for more women to apply to be drivers along its network of 3,000km of track.   To mark the end of Women’s History Month, Northern has released a video calling for more female applicants.   Tricia Williams chief...

Greater Anglia is encouraging women to apply for its latest train driver vacancies as they go live across its network. A total of 14 positions are available at the company, which runs trains between London and Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk...

The chief operating officer of Northern has used Women’s History Month to urge women across the North of England to join her on the railway, declaring: “There’s never been a better time to be a woman in the rail...

A West Midlands Metro tram has been named after the late Theresa Stewart, the first and so far only woman to lead the UK’s largest local authority. It is the second time a tram on the Birmingham to Wolverhampton line...

A mural that commemorates one of the UK’s first female train drivers will remain in place at London Euston station as part of the campaign to encourage more women to consider working in rail as a career. To mark International...

Two of Greater Anglia’s female train depot supervisors are urging women to consider a career working for the railway on this International Women’s Day. Rynette Crichlow and Blessing Akele have both spent many years at Orient Way depot, between Stratford...

TransPennine Express (TPE) is celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting some of the fantastic women working for the operator and encouraging more to join the rail industry. In the last year, 27% TPE’s new hires and 31% of internal promotions...

Women in Rail and Nimble Media have announced that this year's entry fee to the hugely popular Big Rail Diversity Challenge at the 2022 price in direct response to the impact the cost of living crisis is having on...

Women in Rail (WR) marked the end of its 10th anniversary celebrations with its annual Conference on Thursday 2nd March 2023. The hybrid event, hosted by London law firm Stephenson Harwood, brought together 120 in-person attendees and a virtual audience...

South Western Railway (SWR) has joined with Hampshire County Council (HCC) to support ‘Travel with Confidence’ - a project to help those travelling with non-visible disabilities. The project, which is organised by Hampshire Community Rail Partnership (CRP), aims to provide...