Israel's network expansion programme and technological upgrades are set to revolutionise rail transport in the country in the next four to five years. Kevin Smith visits facilities in Haifa and Lod to see how the railway is preparing for the transition.
Facilities at Deutsche Plasser's training centre in Bingen am Rhein are helping to dramatically reduce the time it takes to train track machine engineers, as Kevin Smith discovered during a visit to Germany's Rhine valley.
BRITAIN's rail minister Ms Claire Perry opened the new £7m National Training Academy for Rail in Northampton on October 20.
Railway training is following the trend of vocational education training and becoming more international, as Dr Andrew Russell, managing director, Rail Training International, Britain, explains.
THE International Union of Railways' (UIC) Railway Global Executive MBA is in danger of collapsing if more students don't sign up soon, warns Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, UIC secretary general.
Oman Rail is set to make huge strides on its inaugural railway project in 2015 as its first civil works contracts are awarded and construction gets underway. Kevin Smith reports from Muscat on progress so far.
The GCC member states are pushing ahead with plans to develop an integrated railway network between Oman and Kuwait. Kevin Smith reports from the GCC Metro and Rail conference in Muscat where the leading lights in the GCC railway industry gathered to discuss progress and the challenges facing this mammoth project.
BRITAIN's Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that the new National College of High Speed Rail, which will provide specialist vocational training to the next generation of engineers working on the High Speed 2 (HS2) project, will be located in Birmingham and Doncaster.
A NEW college to train staff for Saudi Railway Company (SAR) has opened in Buraydah, on a section of the North - South Railway currently under construction.
AVERAGE retirement ages may be increasing throughout the world, but as more and more experienced railway men and women walk into the sunset, those left behind are facing the problem of identifying people with sufficient ability to step into their shoes.