Diversity & Inclusion

Work to upgrade a Merseyside station, improving facilities for Northern customers, is now complete. The scheme at Huyton station includes a new and improved waiting area, a new ticket office desk and window. New automatic doors have also been installed...

Southeastern has become the first transport company to become an independently accredited Menopause Friendly Employer. Established by industry experts Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace, The Menopause Friendly Accreditation is the only accreditation that sets clear standards which must be met,...

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...

From on-board to the boardroom, Great Western Railway (GWR) and Network Rail (NR) have teamed up to celebrate women in the rail industry for International Women’s Day today. A new film revisits the careers of some of the women who...

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...