Welcome to the Network Rail Training website.
I believe that excellent training and development it's the essential glue that enables Network Rail
to put passengers and freight users first,
For it is well trained people that enable a safer and better performing railway.
Our role in the industry is unique.
Our people have hands-on rail experience.
We have state of the art facilities
and our thought leadership is at the heart of railway thinking.
With a nationwide network of training centres,
we have invested millions in our track and signalling equipment
to simulate real life conditions
as well as developing a modern, virtual reality suite.
Our training is delivered by subject matter experts
and we’ve recruited some of the best senior maintenance and operations staff to develop and deliver industry leading materials.
We are also committed to supporting the next generation of rail industry leaders
and this website highlights our leadership and professional development programmes
which have been accredited by top flight universities and colleges.
This website provides a view of all the courses we have on offer.
For Network Rail colleagues we’ve also published our latest course catalogue and roadmaps to help you pinpoint your training needs.
We’ve provided an overview on how to book training and the support we offer local teams to identify, plan and deliver training.
An essential read for Line Managers, colleagues and business leaders.
We’ve got a dedicated page that explains more about our apprenticeship schemes and graduate programmes,
including our award winning Railway Engineering and Signalling apprenticeship schemes.
Here, you can also find the latest news about the new growing number of schemes we’re introducing in areas such as HR, Financial Services and Cybersecurity.
My work has focused on creating a strategy for how training should be delivered in the future -not just three to five years from now, but looking at what the industry will need in the coming 15 or 20 years.
I like to consider how people like to learn
and the technology we can then use to create a more immersive experience to support practical application back in the workplace.
My team has taken a lead in a number of industry initiatives to develop the future skills the rail sector needs
from apprenticeships to leadership and behavioural development through to digital and data skills.
By commissioning research through leading universities and applying best practices from other industries like McLaren,
we can understand the latest thinking when it comes to user experience design, team dynamics and human factors topics.
This insight enables us to provide industry thought leadership papers and we work closely with central government departments
and our regulators to understand future strategic workforce requirements,
changing regulatory landscape and the role technology plays to innovate how we develop and deliver training.
We are leading the work to help professionalise operations, making sure we develop operational excellence at every level
and deliver the reliable service our customers are seeking and truly put passengers first.
Across the wider rail industry our people-centric change management expertise
has enabled us to lead national programmes and develop tailored learning solutions with customers.
For example, we brought together over 30 freight and train operating companies to lead an industrywide piece of work for digital training control technology.
To do this we created a team of engineers to develop new learning materials, enabling us to lead the way in the development of future people capability.
Our service is end to end, starting from the analysis of demand
through to the ability to assure and evaluate the effectiveness of the service on offer.
I hope this website highlights how we at Network Rail Training are helping the industry prepare for tomorrow’s railway.
We designed this site for our customers, so your feedback will help us develop and continuously improve.