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ISSUE 195 • SEPTEMBER 2013
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Digital frustration costing passenger transport industry £1.2 billion says O2; supply chain ignorance risks rail equivalent of horse meat scandal says Achilles; research on predicting the human factor in rail accidents; crime on Britain’s railways falls; new Growth and Prosperity report from ATOC; MoU signed between University of Huddersfield and RSSB; UK’s first purpose-built biomass rail freight wagon; national business award for East Coast manager; Crossrail finds evidence of 9000 year-old flint factory
Women in Rail
Adeline Ginn, founder of the Women in Rail group, talks about its new mentoring scheme, the benefits of having more women in the industry, and putting rail in the frame as a career option
ATOC Platform
The key for policymakers thinking about the continued success of rail is not to reject the franchising model, but to build on its positive record to date says Michael Roberts
Laying down the law
Organisations need to use the principles of fairness set by case law, in order to avoid claims for unfair dismissal says Claudia Gerrard
IRO news and diary Latest news and events held by the Institution of Railway Operators 43
Beneath the headline results of the rail National Passenger Survey (NPS) lies a wealth of data says Anthony Smith
Delivering the goods
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A new report from the FTA details what retailers believe they need from the freight sector to encourage them to make greater use of rail
Never too old to learn
RSSB’s Greg Morse discusses the challenge of securing a corporate memory for rail accidents
A packed autumn for rail
As MPs return to Westminster from a summer of constituency duties, Jay Turner looks at to what’s in store in the months ahead
A win-win situation
The UK has the strongest growth in rail market share but is still only at the European average points out Jim Steer. In the decades ahead there is good reason to expect a continuing growth story
Is the average commuter still with us?
Member of strong groups Real-Time Page 4 September 2013 Passenger Information Systems
Danish Railway Group a team of strong Danish suppliers to the rail industry.
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