Chinnor gives 200 graduates a taste of railway operations
WHEN Network Rail took over from Railtrack in 2003, some of its new leadership team actively dismissed heritage railways as irrelevant to the recovery of the rail industry after the tragic series of preventable fatal accidents. However, since then, a few heritage lines have entered the rail industry training and education industry. This trend is likely to expand exponentially in 2022, as it looks like it may be on the cusp of one of the biggest rail industry training collaborations yet.
Many of the tens of thousands of volunteers in our heritage railways and centres are former or existing rail professionals, passing their skills on to volunteers, and – crucially, in ever-growing numbers – new entrants to the rail industry. And soon after Network Rail’s chief executive, Andrew Haines, took up this post in August 2018, he
