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There has never been a better to be part of the Rail Industry. There are certainly exciting times ahead!

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Resourcing Solutions have been chosen to partner with one of the UK’s leading brands in the infrastructure consultancy market.  We are currently supporting a number of exceptional and highly rewarding permanent opportunities based in London and the North West of England.  (more…)

Resourcing Solutions have a number of exciting opportunities working for a well-known brand in the Power Industry. (more…)

We have a wonderful opportunity for an ambitious and driven Graduate Engineer, who has some experience of working in the UK rail industry, to join one of the UK’s leading rail engineering contractors. (more…)

We have a number of opportunities for Engineers with extensive heavy civil engineering experience to be part of the largest rail construction project in Europe. (more…)

County Durham received a welcomed jobs boost last month with the news that Hitachi Rail is to build the next generation of passenger trains in Newton Aycliffe. (more…)

George Osborne’s budget brought some welcome news for the rail industry. The Chancellor announced that the government could now afford to invest an additional £200 million in the UK’s regional railways.

The £85 million Ordsall Chord scheme, which links the two Manchester mainline stations of Piccadilly and Victoria, will now go ahead. This will reduce considerably the journey times between Leeds and Liverpool. (more…)

Rail travellers often suffer during bad weather and last December’s cold snap was no exception. A study carried out by the Office of Rail Regulation found that both Network Rail and the train operators performed badly over the period.

The problem was made worse by train companies adopting different approaches to passenger information even though they were using the same lines. Operators also failed to coordinate emergency timetables, adding yet more confusion to passengers.

At stations, passengers faced a confusing array of information, from destination boards to tannoy announcements, which left them with no idea when, or even if, trains were running. The report claimed that wildly inaccurate information was being given in some instances because the latest train timetables were not fed into the information system which stations rely on. (more…)

Luckily, the rail industry escaped the worst of the government cuts and projects such as Crossrail and electrification, which had seemed to be in jeopardy, will now go ahead. In fact it looks as if there’ll be plenty of projects to keep skilled rail workers busy for at least the next ten years. (more…)

On 16th November 2010, The Government has confirmed that funding will be made available towards the establishment of the National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering (NSARE). (more…)