Pictured Above: Gary Brackley Rail Tech Head of Signalling, with April 2009 TraineesThe Rail Tech Group is pleased to announce that they have recently recruited a further 7 trainee signalling engineers to add to its growing signalling workforce. The trainees have been recruited to supplement the company’s main core business and this recent intake is in addition to 7 additional trainees that started back in April 2009. This now brings Rail Tech’s direct employee level upto 95 ranging from Project Engineers, Signalling Supervisors, SMTH Team Leaders, Installers and Assistant Installers.

The latest trainees were selected from over 100 applicants hoping to become a part of Rail Tech’s accelerated signalling training programme. Mary Wood, Rail Tech Group H.R Manager said “Our trainees were selected using a combination of both technical and non-technical vocational testing techniques. Our last 4 trainee programs have included people from all walks of life although transferable skills have been of benefit. Recent programs have included many ex-MOD personnel through our association with the Career Transition Partnership scheme. We will continue to recruit fresh people into our business and with Rail Tech providing competent in-house training we expect them to reach the very high standards that are expected of our employees.

We have also been working pro-actively on instilling our company values into our new trainees. We believe that the extra efforts we are placing on these softer issues will continue to ensure we produce first-class signalling engineers for both our existing and future customers.”

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Rail Tech Group website. This website brings together the four main divisions of Rail Tech Group, Training Services, IRSE Assessing and Outsourcing, under one new, clean and easy to use website.

The concept was to unify the divisions of Rail Tech Group giving our partners, colleagues, staff and clients the best possible experience, and with easy navigation across divisions, each visitor can explore our full range of services.

This website was designed from the ground up by a member of our IT Department, Karl Pennington, and is on the hosting platform Squarespace.com.

Rail Tech Group achieved a 500 day accident free record on the projectRail Tech Group can look back on their Principal Contractor role for all S&T Enabling Works on the Trent Valley Four Tracking Project and regard their input as a huge success. Rail Tech were highly praised by Network Rail throughout the scheme that was in itself part of the £8 Billion upgrade of the West Coast main line. The Trent Valley project focused on the doubling of the railway to four tracks along a 19km section between Armitage with Handsacre and Tamworth to remove a major bottleneck on the network.

In its role as Principal Contractor to Network Rail, Rail Tech provided dedicated signalling teams and management to undertake a variety of signalling functions ranging from new works installation to complex cable diversion works. As part of the role Rail Tech provided fault team cover that reduced project delay times, all of which were controlled by Rail Tech’s Contractor’s Responsible Engineer (C.R.E).

Over the project period Rail Tech were asked to undertake the W179 re-signalling package. This involved new works installation of track circuits, point machines and signals within a four mile stretch of track.