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RECORD NUMBER of NOMINATIONS! BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW at RAILSTAFFAWARDS.COM Our Four Commitments OCTOBER 2018 | ISSUE 251 SEE DAYS PAGE 18 LATER 79PAGE 18 PLUS NEWS PEOPLE +GEAR & TECH FEATURES HEALTH & SAFETY COMPANY FOCUS EVENTS TRAINING CAREERS MARC JOHNSON FOUND OUT HOW DERBY'S 79-DAY PARTIAL BLOCKADE RAILSTAFF.UK WAS DONE THURSDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2018 ~ NEC BIRMINGHAM RECORD NUMBER OF NOMINATIONS! BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW AT RAILSTAFFAWARDS.COM Our four commitments StoneHaven_Layouts_AL.indd 4 28/08/2018 11:20 3 18 CONTENTSOCTOBER 2018 | ISSUE 251 This month's cover features Derby works project manager Kerry Arrowsmith. ROOT AND BRANCH | 07 UK transport secretary Chris Grayling has announced a sweeping root and branch review of the country’s rail industry. HUFTON TO BOMBARDIER | 11 Former Network Rail managing director Phil Hufton has left to lead Bombardier Transportation in the UK. 07 11 79 DAYS LATER | 18 Marc Johnson found out how Derby’s 79-day partial blockade was done. DERBY DELIVERS | 22 East Midlands Trains (EMT) has presented the first of three renovated HST trainsets to the media. EVERYONE MATTERS | 24 We look at how Network Rail is starting some difficult conversations to address workplace taboos. 18 24 SPOTLIGHT PPE OF YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW | 14 Stewart Thorpe takes a look at the early forms of PPE and what’s coming next. THE UK AT INNOTRANS | 30 Transport secretary Chris Grayling led the charge as UK rail companies went in search of new international opportunities at 30 InnoTrans. FACEBOOK.COM/RAILSTAFF | @RAIL_STAFF | RAILSTAFF.UK EMAIL US FOR DETAILS OF OUR WEARER TRIAL PROGRAM TOUGH FINNISH FOOTWEAR – ALL DAY COMFORT SAFETY Our top priority. 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CONTACT US NOW FOR OUR 2018 CATALOGUE 0800 169 0332 [email protected] www.sievi.com 163431_RC0817_Sievi_FP-Ad_RS-Oct18.indd 1 11/10/2018 16:52 RAILSTAFF OCTOBER 2018 NEWS 5 Staff Under the radar Contact us: Publisher: Paul O’Connor Editor: Marc Johnson Production and design: Adam O’Connor Matthew Stokes News Editor: Stewart Thorpe Track Safety: Colin Wheeler Event Sales: Jolene Price Advertising: Asif Ahmed Craig Smith Keith Hopper Contact Email Addresses News: [email protected] Pictures: [email protected] Adverts: [email protected] Subscriptions: [email protected] Contact Details RailStaff Publications, Earlier this month, a full timetable of There was also some acknowledgment Rail Media House, passenger services operated through in a local TV news report for the earnest Samson Road, Coalville, Derby for the first time in two and a half engineering staff, who managed to only Leicestershire, LE67 3FP. months. The mammoth £200 million fully close the station once to traffic over the upgrade around Derby station had been course of the 79 days. Tel: 01530 816 444 completed, as project managers like to say, Why is it that successful projects, Fax: 01530 810 344 ‘on time, on budget’. especially those with no obvious new structure or monument, seem inherently Web: www.railstaff.uk The project was described as the biggest less newsworthy? Is it simply because Email: [email protected] remodelling of the station layout since good stories don’t make great news? Victorian times and even as one of the Because news is about the unexpected not Printed by PCP Ltd. biggest engineering projects ever undertaken the routine? Maybe because in a world of RailStaff is published by by Network Rail. It has been one of the great perishable online journalism it just takes too RailStaff Publications Limited engineering feats of recent railway history and long for reporters to get to grips with the A Rail Media Publication the headlines practically write themselves. technical nature of railways. In reality, the wider media response was The latter certainly seems true. In an predictably muted. The BBC wrote 202 attempt to cut through the jargon, press ® words online, leading with a Google image releases are sent out with simple analogies of Derby station’s city side entrance. ITV and phrasing. Somewhere in this process managed 123 words with a selection of the real magic of the work being undertaken © All rights reserved. No part of this magazine can be photos and videos. The local press was can be lost. reproduced in any form without the prior written permission of more encouraging, with a more substantial But there will be other projects to get the copyright owners. report on its website, although it didn’t stray journalists enthused about. Crossrail, when too far from the Network Rail press release. it does eventually open next year, will attract international coverage. Those involved don’t need reminding of how important it will be to get that day right. In the meantime, positive railway stories will continue to fly under the radar. Some will make the edit but reports about cancellations, nationalisation and industrial action will quickly shift the narrative back. However, colleagues shouldn’t feel disheartened. The popularity of TV shows like Paddington Station 24/7 demonstrate the public’s interest in those that work behind the scenes. Frustration in failures of the system don’t seem to diminish the appreciation they have for those who are left to manage the fallout. It shows that it is possible to reshape the natural skepticism that some passengers have about the railway. The staff they meet are often the people to do it. [email protected] FACEBOOK.COM/RAILSTAFF | @RAIL_STAFF | RAILSTAFF.UK 6 NEWS RAILSTAFF OCTOBER 2018 Bombardier is to begin testing its new fleet of Class 720 Aventra units for Greater Anglia after unveiling one of the first completed trains at its factory in Derby. Bombardier is building 665 new carriages, in total 22 ten-car trains and 89 five-car trains, to replace Greater Anglia's commuter trains in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and parts of Suffolk. Greater Anglia said the trains' underfloor heating and air conditioning units will do away The main with the need for heating vents and create more legroom for Aventra passengers. The walkthrough carriages will also allow passengers to move new trains nearing completion. easily along the train. It’s now possible to see the While the new Aventras won't huge difference they’re going enter passenger service until to make to our commuters and next autumn, passengers will other customers travelling to and Caledonian Sleeper start seeing them on the network from London Liverpool Street when they begin dynamic testing and across much of the Greater delays introduction of in early 2019. Anglia network. Greater Anglia's Andrew "These new trains should new fleet Goodrum, who is leading the be much more comfortable introduction of the new trains, for customers, as well as more Brand new carriages will tickets on the Lowland said: “It’s great to see these reliable." no longer be coming to the services on or after 28 October Caledonian Sleeper’s Lowland have been offered a full refund or service between London, the opportunity to rebook. Glasgow and Edinburgh this Ryan Flaherty, Serco’s month as originally planned. managing director at Caledonian Sleeper, said: “Our new trains will The operator has confirmed mark a magical new chapter in that although production of rail travel in the UK. the new rolling stock is well “The new sleeper carriages Subscribe to our advanced, it was still completing are absolutely superb, and the “time-consuming and will transform the experience free publications at complex” process of testing of travelling by train between www.railsubs.com and commissioning the new Scotland and England. We are carriages. sorry that we will not be able to The new units are now launch the service this autumn, expected to be operating from all and understand that customers stations by the end of May next who wanted to travel on them in year. 2018 will be disappointed. In a statement on its website, “But with five different Serco, which operates the accommodation types, as well service, said 40 of the 75 sleeper as on board catering, dining and carriages being built by CAF shower facilities, this is the most were in the UK, with the rest complex introduction of new expected to be delivered in the rolling stock ever undertaken in coming weeks. the UK, and we are determined Guests who have booked to get it right.” www.rail-media.com RAILSTAFF.UK | @RAIL_STAFF | FACEBOOK.COM/RAILSTAFF RAILSTAFF OCTOBER 2018 NEWS 7 Root and branch One from the archive A records assistant at Network Rail’s archive in York has stumbled across a UK transport secretary Chris Grayling has of reliability, delivering better services and notebook with George Stephenson’s announced a sweeping root and branch value for money for passengers, commercial plans for the world’s first locomotive- review of the country's rail industry. sustainability and innovation. Keith Williams driven passenger railway. will be supported by an external panel and Described by the Department for Transport will report back in 2019. The government John Page (DfT) as the most significant since privatisation, will publish a white paper on the review’s discovered the the assessment will consider making ambitious recommendations, with the implementation of notebook by chance reforms to strengthen franchises and improve reforms planned to start from 2020.
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