Signalling & Telecommunications
Network Rail The Great Northern Great Eastern (GNGE) project includes linespeed enhancement through a new signalling system and continuous welded rail.
Network Rail Network Rail introduced a modern lightweight signalling scheme in the Valleys, meeting future requirements for electrifi cation in the area around Cardiff.
ScotRail
The UK rail industry’s biggest-ever roll-out of free wi-fi at stations and on-board all Class 170 and 38 Class 380s across Scotland.
TfL
The new signalling system on the Jubilee and Northern lines facilitates capacity enhancements and includes a loop cable which if it is damaged leads to the train service being suspended.
Social Media CrossCountry
The development of a social media strategy to engage with student passengers led to a 20% year-on-year increase of sales through the NUS extra channel.
SoDash Software allows train operators to listen to, join in with, and manage social media conversations happening around them and about them.
Southern Railway Southern and BBC South fi lmed the journey from London to Brighton from the view of a driver’s cab, which has now had over half a million views on YouTube alone.
Training & Development Arcadia Alive Ltd
The Driver Support and Human Factors for Trainee Drivers programmes aim to enhance non-technical skills to complement drivers’ technical knowledge and to maximise safe behaviour.
Babcock A Training and Development programme for Network Rail’s engineering technicians through a residential three year Advanced Apprenticeship Programme that delivers sector leading specialists.
Mott MacDonald The graduate rotation programme creates a talent pipeline of consultants who are comfortable and effective in a multi-functional environment, and professionally qualifi ed.
WCPSU Integrated Team Under a programme to ‘build their own’ OLE-competent workforce, trainees were recruited from outside the industry and supervised by mentors through the Overhead Line Electrifi cation Competence (OLEC) programme.
Workforce Safety
Arcadia Alive Ltd A driver support programme enhances workers’ non-technical skills and drives behavioural change and improved performance.
Dual Inventive Ltd Remote control technology was introduced to improve workforce safety by allowing staff to activate a possession without entering the track.
MITIE Total Security Management A new fi ve-year smartcard platform updates Network Rail’s paper-based Sentinel scheme and allows worker safety and competence checks to be made in real-time.
ScotRail
The ‘Switched On’ awareness campaign im- proved personal responsibility for safety and ‘The Professionals’ campaign delivered a behaviour-based development programme.
Young Rail Professional – Female
Katie Anderton Senior Environmental Consultant at Temple Group, Katie Anderton is working on LOCIP and has been ‘instrumental’ across the programme, adding value beyond her remit.
Charlotte Mace
Charlotte Mace, Civil Field Engineer at Network Rail, has worked on the Crossrail Acton Dive-under project and managed the reorganisation of the graduate scheme into the devolved routes system.
Emma Taylor
National Aerial Survey Specialist at Network Rail, Emma Taylor started as an apprentice in signal engineering and now acts as an ambassador promoting apprenticeships to young people.
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Network Rail The Great Northern Great Eastern (GNGE) Leadership Development Programme (GLDP) equips operational leaders with practical skills essential to leading teams successfully across the project.
ScotRail ScotRail’s Training Academy delivers customer service apprenticeships, mature apprenticeships, and performance development leadership schemes.
Young Rail Professional – Male Scott Bradley
OTM Operations Manager at AmeyColas, Scott Bradley developed an extremely low-cost, robustly engineered GPS driven fl ange lubrication system suitable for use on preserved lines with much lower operating speeds than mainline counterparts.
Toufi c Machnouk Project Manager at Network Rail, Toufi c Machnouk helped deliver the new train care depot in Reading six months ahead of its public ommitment and saved 25% of its £131m budget.
Joseph Muskett Project Acceptance Specialist at Network Rail Infrastructure Projects, Joseph Muskett made signifi cant contributions to project governance through the national Rail Infrastructure Supplier performance initiative.
The UK Rail Industry Awards were judged based on objective scoring criteria using QinetiQ Commerce Decisions’ AWARD solution, which has been used on more than 50 projects within the UK rail sector worth a total of over £20bn. Find out more about AWARD on page 22.
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