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Network Rail and BMet (Birmingham Metropolitan College) have joined forces to create the Rail Skills Hub, a place to develop ...

South Western Railway (SWR) have opened applications for their 2026 apprenticeship roles. Everything from Fleet Commercial Leadership to Prosecutions Administration ...

Employability Workshop hosted by Network Rail Open to 15-16 year olds, this workshop is designed to: Boost your confidence Build ...

Flexible working has rapidly become a crucial part of all industries, allowing companies to hire the best person for the ...

Explore your future in rail! In collaboration with key rail industry partners, we are offering an exclusive work experience programme ...

Explore your future in rail! In collaboration with key rail industry partners, we are offering an exclusive work experience programme ...

Employment in the rail industry encompasses thousands of roles all working together to provide the most efficient and reliable transport ...

Are you a woman interested in exploring a rewarding career in the rail industry? Look no further! This two-week initiative, ...

Are you a woman interested in exploring a rewarding career in the rail industry? Look no further! This two-week initiative, ...

Ever wondered how trains travel across vast distances? Or how impressive railway stations are designed and built? That’s where Civil ...

Continued to develop the website as a valuable resource for varied audiences In 2024, we continued to update the website ...

This week, 10-16 February, is National Apprenticeship Week. Routes into Rail is getting involved by helping people learn more about ...

Are you thinking about your next steps after finishing school? Looking for a new role? Wanting to take your career ...

One of the best ways to enter the rail sector is through an apprenticeship. Apprenticeships offer the opportunity to earn ...

The Colas Rail UK Swindon Office will host an open door event exclusively for women, because rail is for women ...

Join rail industry employers for this webinar to find out about opportunities and how to apply for apprenticeships in rail ...

Customer Service roles are vital to the smooth and successful operation of the UK rail industry. They are the human ...

Architects are the creative minds behind the buildings and spaces we experience every day. They combine artistic vision with technical ...

Daisy Chapman-Chamberlain works for Transport for the North and is the self-described ‘Queen of the Railways’. She writes a regular ...

As technology evolves, the railways are changing too. Digital signalling replaces traditional ‘traffic light’ signals along the tracks with continuous, ...

Are you the one who loves tinkering with computers, building websites, or creating games? Maybe you’re fascinated by how apps ...

Rail needs tens of thousands more professionals over the coming years to keep up with passenger demand and government investment ...

As the cleanest form of transport, rail will play a crucial role in achieving net zero and building a sustainable ...

We are pleased to announce that South Western Railway has joined Routes into Rail as a Silver funder. Routes into ...

Are you the person in your group who is always organising things? Maybe you are great at planning events, or ...

Routes into Rail is a sector initiative that aims to help solve the industry’s skills shortages by promoting and providing ...

Daisy Chapman-Chamberlain is the Innovation Manager at East West Railway Company and self-described ‘Queen of the Railways’. She writes a regular guest ...

Big investment in new projects – like HS2, the TransPennine Route Upgrade, Northern Powerhouse Rail and East West Rail – ...

We are pleased to announce that Colas Rail has joined Routes into Rail as a Silver funder. Routes into Rail ...

We are pleased to announce that Intertrain has joined Routes into Rail as a Bronze funder. Routes into Rail was ...

We are pleased to announce that Bridgeway Consulting has joined Routes into Rail as a supporter. Routes into Rail was ...

We are pleased to announce that the Railway Industry Association (RIA) has renewed funding to support Routes into Rail. RIA ...

2025 marks 200 years since the first train journey. In 1825 George Stephenson’s Locomotion No.1 hauled the world’s first passenger ...

Colas Rail are hosting a Rail Open day for girls & women. Welcoming anyone in education and career returners ...

Daisy Chapman-Chamberlain is the Innovation Manager at East West Rail and self-described ‘Queen of the Railways’. She will be writing a regular ...

Interested in becoming a train driver but not sure where to get started? Look no further! Driving trains is a ...

Rail needs tens of thousands more professionals over the coming years to keep the country running. This demand presents a ...

This week, 5-11 February, is National Apprenticeship Week. Routes into Rail is getting involved by helping people learn more about ...

In August 2023, Routes into Rail and Springpod created a virtual work experience programme that helps students learn about the ...

Partnered with UCAS In January 2023, Routes into Rail began a partnership with UCAS to reach engaged students considering university ...

Last month, Routes into Rail, Network Rail and VolkerRail attended the Women in Engineering and Technology event to speak to young women interested in a ...

Supporting veterans and service leavers into careers in the rail industry. NSAR is the driving force behind Routes into Rail ...

Want to know what it is like to work in the rail industry? Find out with our virtual work experience ...

Routes into Rail has been working with video production company Cognitive to produce a series of videos with information about ...

Railways have long been vital to connecting people and communities. Behind the scenes, there's a world of innovation driving the ...

Routes into Rail made an impact on students, teachers and parents at two recent events: the Big Bang Fair and ...

Rail will need tens of thousands of new people in the coming decades to deliver big projects with billions of ...

As part of its revamped campaign, Routes into Rail is partnering with UCAS to reach young people considering their study ...

If you are searching for a career that will nurture your ambitions, VolkerRail is undertaking an apprentice recruitment drive, with ...

Routes into Rail is collaborating with the rail sector exclusive job board RBD Rail Recruiter as part of its new website ...

A revamped Routes into Rail campaign website backed by Network Rail, The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and industry partners Amey, HS2, Railway Industry ...

More details to come closer to the date ...

Come and visit the Routes into Rail stall at UCAS Discover London 2023. We will be at Stand J (near ...

HS2’s construction partner, Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV), is launching a new undergraduate programme to help students gain valuable work experience ...

Over the length of the construction of Britain’s new high speed zero-carbon railway HS2 has recognised the importance of investing ...

Routes into Rail partnered with CareerMap as part of National Apprenticeship Week to hear the voices of apprentices from across ...

HS2 is continuing its commitment to ‘Build the Future’ – the theme for this year’s National Apprenticeship Week – by ...

Next Tuesday February 8th from 9am, Routes into Rail are partnering with CareerMap to produce an event highlighting the apprenticeship ...

Virtual Reality and real time monitoring by sensors built into HS2’s infrastructure including rails, bridges and overhead power lines will ...

Network Rail and The Talent Foundry have completed the initial pilot scheme of the Track to the Future programme, which ...

HS2 Ltd is searching for talented graduates to join them to create Britain’s low-carbon, high-speed railway. It is offering 16 ...

Network Rail’s leaders have pledged to increase the number of disabled people they employ after figures showed that less than ...

East West Rail Connection Stage One is currently being built between Oxford, Bletchley and Milton Keynes by Network Rail and ...

Rail Wellbeing Live 2021 is the rail industry’s largest free health and wellbeing event is returning next month on 17th ...

Over 16,000 people from across the rail industry took part in Rail Wellbeing Live on 17th & 18th November, the ...

Many people working in rail start with an apprenticeship. This allows you to: Combine on-the-job training with classroom learning. Study ...

Members of Britain’s rail youth community partnership were given the chance to ride on the UK’s first hydrogen-fuelled train to ...

Network Rail’s Commercial and Procurement (C&P) team has reached an important milestone in partnering with suppliers to tackle climate change ...

Amey Consulting’s new Environmental Practitioner Apprenticeship Programme will develop key environmental skills and build capacity to deliver sustainable net zero ...

VolkerRail’s major projects director, Stuart Birch, is to take part in a digital webinar, on Wednesday 16 June, to discuss ...

HS2 Marketplace, which launches today (1 November 2021), is designed to support companies of all sizes who are engaged in ...

Porterbrook, the rolling stock owner and asset manager, has been named Transport Sector Leader in the annual Global Real Estate ...

Network Rail have worked in collaboration with Amey’s rail team to create a new overhead line tunnel drill, the first ...

Routes into Rail, the collaboration led by NSAR and supported by partners, Amey, HS2, Network Rail, Porterbrook, Volker Rail and ...

Over three days in September, a team of four from VolkerRail conquered the Porterbrook Three Peaks challenge by rail, raising ...

The Railway Industry Association (RIA), Young Rail Professionals (YRP), and Women in Rail would like to invite you to the ...

Jermaine Allen from Leeds unveiled the nameplate for GB Railfreight engine 66796, which he has named ‘The Green Progressor’, at ...

A new economic report published by independent researchers Oxford Economics shows a UK railway industry powering ahead before the pandemic ...

HS2’s Skills, Employment and Education team has launched a range of brand-new educational and teaching resources which align to the ...

This month, Amey Consulting welcomes 40 talented Graduate and Degree Apprentices to its Consultancy & Design and Advisory & Analytics ...

The Railway Children’s Three Peaks Challenge by Rail, helps to raise life-changing funds for vulnerable children across the world. The ...

Amey apprentices and graduates took part in the Amey Early Careers Challenge fundraising over £11,000 for Amey’s employee chosen charity, Cancer Research ...

Amey Consulting has been awarded an ‘Initiative of the Year Award’ by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) for its Future Office Initiative. Amey Consulting’s ...

Network Rail has teamed up with partners to put on a day of free science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) ...

Having been presented with its tenth Gold Medal Fleet Safety Award, VolkerRail is delighted to receive the prestigious RoSPA President’s ...

The HS2 roadshow will make three stops in the capital with pop up events scheduled to take place in Kings ...

The Rail Technology Magazine (RTM) has planted 250 trees in VolkerRail’s name, following employee engagement with its RTM365 Equality, Diversity ...

Network Rail and partners have teamed up to put on a day of free science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) ...

On the one-year anniversary of the Government’s Plan for Jobs, HS2 Ltd has announced that the project has reached another ...

Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris has praised the trial of a new piece of emission reduction technology fitted to a train ...

Routes into Rail has a featured article in CareerMag for School Leavers written by our own Barry Smith, Head of ...

June 23rd marked International Women in Engineering Day, and employers across the rail sector paid tribute to fantastic engineers in ...

Amey Consulting has welcomed its first cohort of students to the Civil Engineer Degree Apprenticeship (CEDA) programme. Working in partnership ...

Routes into Rail will be in attendance at Rail Live on June 16th - 17th 2021!  We will be located ...

Network Rail is marking LGBT Pride Month by hosting its second annual Pride Fest event across two weeks in June, ...

Network Rail has announced plans to work with rolling stock owner and asset manager, Porterbrook, to showcase some of the best of British low-carbon train technology ...

HS2 is going way beyond requirements to lower carbon and emissions on its construction sites, and with HS2’s Curzon Street ...

Rail employers are now starting to embrace the Department for Work and Pensions’ Kickstart Scheme, creating the opportunities so desperately ...

The launch of the first of ten giant tunnelling machines that will dig 64 miles of tunnels between London and ...

The Times Top 50 Employers for Women is the UK’s most well-established listing of employers leading the way on workplace ...

This Friday 23rd April, representatives from across the rail sector will be joining Routes into Rail at Student Pride Careers ...

The month of Ramadan is upon us, and whether you are participating or observing, knowledge of Ramadan is key for ...

On the 23rd April 2021, Routes into Rail will join a number of big names such as Microsoft & Amazon ...

In February, Routes into Rail delivered a successful webinar at National Apprenticeship Week presenting all the available opportunities and ways ...

100% of Amey employees were paid the real living wage, with more than 3000 employees receiving an uplift in 2020 ...

Taking place from 28-30 April 2021, RIA’s award-winning virtual Innovation Conference will feature a wide range of keynote addresses, workshops, ...

Routes into Rail is proud to share with you a wide range of graduate schemes from a variety of rail ...

Young people have seen their mental health deteriorate the most since the pandemic began, according to new research from Network ...

London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is making a commitment to bring more women into the rail industry by 2025, focusing ...

Book your place now for Muslims in Rail (MIR) upcoming interactive event on International Women’s Day: https://mir-iwd2021.eventbrite.co.uk/ In line with the ...

As we approach ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day’, Primary Engineer® is working to bring the wonders of rail into ...

Routes into Rail is proud to share with you a wide range of apprenticeship schemes from a variety of rail ...

Every year Network Rail runs a competition on Twitter inviting people to submit striking images. People then vote for their ...

HS2 Ltd  has today launched a brand-new jobs site to promote the estimated 20,000 roles that phase one of the project is creating in the months and years ahead ...

Before one winter’s over, Network Rail is thinking about the next. They plan ahead for snow, ice, floods and wind ...

Network Rail has joined forces with national conservation charity The Tree Council to plant more than 80,000 trees and hedgerows ...

HS2 today unveiled the use of an innovative onboard robot that will improve safety and efficiency on the high speed ...

The Railway Industry Association (RIA) and Women in Rail (WR) launched a Charter to champion equality, diversity and inclusion in ...

Porterbrook and the University of Birmingham unveiled HydroFLEX, Britain’s first hydrogen powered train, as it started operational trials on the ...

Network Rail has announced a major step forward in tackling climate change by becoming the first railway company in the ...