2025 Awards Shortlist

Celebrating Excellence Across the Rail Sector

Shortlist

ACTING AS ONE TEAM

  • BAM NUTTALL โ€“ Team work makes the dream work
  • NETWORK RAIL, BAM NUTTALL, VOLKERRAIL, CRSA โ€“ Achieving the Impossible Programme for City of Culture 2025 โ€“ LAIP2- Bradford Forster Square Station
  • TRANSPORT FOR LONDON โ€“ Rail for London Infrastructure โ€“ RfLi Projects & Programme Integration โ€“ Track and Switch & Crossing Renewal
  • EAST MIDLANDS RAILWAY โ€“ The launch of the Luton Airport Express
  • EAST MIDLANDS RAILWAY โ€“ Intercity Rail Freight
  • EKFB โ€“ Connecting Britain through HS2 and East West Rail
  • EUROSTAR GROUP โ€“ Delivery of the Delta project
  • ICOMERA โ€“ Connected Video- and AI-Based Technologies
  • LNER & NORTHERN TRAINS โ€“ Effective Auditing
  • MOTT MACDONALD & ELIZABETH LINE โ€“ A step change for the Elizabeth line
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Dawlish sea wall
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ PIMS Team โ€“ 2023 Joint Performance Strategy Peer Review Process
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ FELIX- Automated Measurement Trolley
  • NETWORK RAIL AND THE RAIL DELIVERY GROUP โ€“ Smarter Information, Smarter Journey (SISJ) Programme Team
  • SRC INFRASTRUCTURE โ€“ SRC โ€“ Engineering Delivery Partner

ASSET MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE

  • ATMO TECHNOLOGY โ€“ Atmoโ€™s Smart Depot: The Future of Rail Operations
  • MOTT MACDONALD & TFL ELIZABETH LINE โ€“ The story of asset management at the Elizabeth line
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Partial Discharge Monitoring in HV Cables
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Drainage Asset Management Improvements
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ Train Presentation goes digital
  • TWINFIX LTD โ€“ Great Malvern Station

BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY โ€“ INFRASTRUCTURE

  • ATKINSREALIS โ€“ ETCS DRACAS
  • ATKINSREALIS โ€“ Digital Image Correlation
  • MACRAIL โ€“ Location360
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ StrEAMS: Strategy Engineering and Asset Management System
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Flying high to deliver safe and efficient maintenance
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Ultrasonic Contact Wire Crack Detection
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ FELIX Trolley helps to improve track worker safety as it revolutionises track inspections
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Digitised Lineside Inspection tool
  • PETARDS RAIL โ€“ Over the air update of safety critical data
  • RSSB โ€“ PRIMA: Revolutionizing Rail Asset Risk Management During Adverse Weather Conditions
  • SPL POWERLINES โ€“ Delivery of Midland Main Line Electrification Programme, which is a multi-discipline infrastructure programme to increase capacity
  • SRC INFRASTRUCTURE โ€“ Drones in urban rail environment
  • SYSTRA UK โ€“ Implementing 4D Virtual Design and Construction on the Transpennine Route Upgrade
  • TURNTIDE TECHNOLOGIES โ€“ Gen 5 Battery Pack

BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY โ€“ PASSENGER IMPACT

  • APCOA โ€“ APCOA ScanPay Technology
  • CROSSCOUNTRY TRAINS โ€“ XC JourneyMaker
  • GOODMAPS โ€“ Inclusive and Accessible Indoor Navigation
  • ICOMERA โ€“ Connected Video- and AI-Based Technologies
  • LNER โ€“ The trial of British Sign Language (BSL) on Customer Information Screens (CIS) at Doncaster station
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ British Sign Language at Scotland Major Stations
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ GUSTO: gale force wind tool targeting speed restrictions to risk
  • NETWORK RAIL AND THE RAIL DELIVERY GROUP โ€“ Personalised Journey Notifications led by the Smarter Information, Smarter Journey (SISJ) Team

COMMITMENT TO SAFETY

  • ATKINSREALIS โ€“ European Train Control System (ETCS) standards review
  • AVANTI WEST COAST โ€“ Giving Safety a Lift at Stafford Station
  • BAM NUTTALL โ€“ Through the SMD Framework, have demonstrated continuous safety performance levels
  • TEAM RAILFREIGHT โ€“ NETWORK RAIL & GBRTT โ€“ Freight Load Books โ€“ safety
  • HITACHI RAIL โ€“ A proactive and engaging communications strategy that provides regular updates on HSE
  • MACRAIL โ€“ Location360
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Possession Limit Controls โ€“ Technical Authority
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Commitment to Public Safety
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ The Wessex Safety team identified a new and emerging risk with the storage and charging of Lithium-ion batteries
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Third Rail Station Switching PROJECT
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Optimised Earthing
  • PETARDS RAIL โ€“ PTEye, improving the safety of train dispatch
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ The National Safeguarding Conference: Developing Capable Guardianship
  • SYSTRA UK โ€“ Enhanced Safety through Visual Simulations
  • TRANSPORT FOR LONDON โ€“ Station Security Technology Integration Programme (SSTIP): Critical Incident Management Response
  • TWINFIX LTD โ€“ Great Malvern Station

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

  • ALSTOM โ€“ Alstom CSR & Community Project Fund (CPF)
  • BAM NUTTALL โ€“ Bridges for schools
  • c2c TRENITALIA โ€“ c2Sanitary
  • EAST MIDLANDS RAILWAY โ€“ Rail Safety Pathway
  • GREATER ANGLIA โ€“ Delivering for East Anglia
  • HEATHROW EXPRESS โ€“ Heathrow Express CSR Initiatives
  • KIER โ€“ Kier Pathways
  • LEARN LIVE LTD โ€“ Rail Safe Friendly Programme
  • MITIE โ€“ Having a local focus to positively impact communities
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Social Value in Railway Stations
  • PETARDS RAIL โ€“ Petards and the Eco Vadis project
  • QTS GROUP โ€“ The Future of Rail
  • RAILWAY CHILDREN โ€“ Railway Children and FirstGroup Partnership
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ Delivering Improvements for Customers
  • TRANSPENNINE ROUTE UPGRADE โ€“ โ€˜Cones and the Transpennine Route Upgradeโ€™ / Book to Engage Youth Along the Route

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

  • c2c TRENITALIA โ€“ c2Sanitary
  • EAST MIDLANDS RAILWAY โ€“ Impact of Employee Network Groups (ENGs)
  • GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ REACH (Recognising Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage)
  • HITACHI INFORMATION CONTROL SYSTEMS (EUROPE) LTD โ€“ Establish Equity, Embrace Diversity, Foster Inclusion โ€“ EDI Matters
  • HULL TRAINS โ€“ Putting People First
  • KIER โ€“ Expect Respect
  • LNER โ€“ Georgia Hudnott outstanding promotion of Diversity and Inclusion
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ British Sign Language at Scotland Major Stations
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ All Aboard
  • TES 2000 LTD โ€“ The People and Culture (P&C) team embarked on a mission to make the workplace more inclusive, equitable, and diverse by embedding DEI principles into every facet of the organisation

DELIVERING FOR THE CUSTOMER

  • BAM NUTTALL โ€“ Through the SMD Framework, have demonstrated continuous safety performance levels
  • EAST MIDLANDS RAILWAY โ€“ Skegness Summer 2023
  • ESOTERIX SYSTEMS & SOUTHEASTERN โ€“ PRISM: a win-win for customer value and TOC revenue
  • GOODMAPS โ€“ Inclusive and Accessible Indoor Navigation
  • HEATHROW EXPRESS โ€“ Enhancing the travel experience for customers
  • ICOMERA โ€“ Connected Video- and AI-Based Technologies
  • WHOOSH, LNER & NETWORK RAIL โ€“ The development of a personalised real-time information solution
  • STM Group Ltd โ€“ STM Station Deep Clean Project
  • STORY CONTRACTING โ€“ Hartlepool Station Upgrade
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ SWR Dynamic Disruption Information Innovations
  • TWINFIX LTD โ€“ Great Malvern Station
  • WEST MIDLANDS METRO โ€“ The expansion of WWM and the benefits realised for customers

INNOVATIVE ROLLING STOCK

  • POSITIVE TRACTION โ€“ 08e Shunter โ€“ Diesel to Battery Power Conversion
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ Class 158/9 Single Variable Rate Sander System

NET ZERO PIONEER

  • ATKINSREALIS โ€“ AtkinsRรฉalis: Committed to carbon reduction
  • BAM NUTTALL โ€“ Chatham Access for All
  • GREATER ANGLIA โ€“ Delivering a sustainable railway for East Anglia
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ The โ€œHedgehogโ€ Integrated Composite Sleeper
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ South Western Railway Journey to Net Zero
  • THINK HIRE โ€“ Peter McCulloch: Leading the Way in Innovation
  • TWINFIX LTD โ€“ Great Malvern Station

OPERATOR OF THE YEAR

  • GREATER ANGLIA โ€“ Delivering Service Excellence
  • HULL TRAINS โ€“ Delivering Operational Excellence
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ At the heartbeat of the communities they serve
  • WEST MIDLANDS TRAINS โ€“ The transformation with new projects, timetables and customer initiatives
  • WEST MIDLANDS METRO โ€“ The increased popularity of the service

OUTSTANDING PROJECT (OVER ยฃ20M)

  • EAST MIDLANDS RAILWAY โ€“ Peter McCulloch: Leading the Way in Innovation
  • LIVERPOOL CITY REGION COMBINED AUTHORITY & KIER โ€“ Headbolt Lane Station
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Gatwick Airport Station Remodelling Project
  • SIEMENS MOBILITY โ€“ The London Managed Stations (LMS) project
  • RAIL ELECTRIFICATION ALLIANCE (REAL) Static Frequency Converters: Delivering more efficient, resilient, and affordable rail electrification
  • SPL POWERLINES โ€“ Kettering to Wigston
  • WEST MIDLANDS RAIL EXECUTIVE / TfWM โ€“ University Station Redevelopment

OUTSTANDING PROJECT (UNDER ยฃ20M)

  • c2c TRENITALIA โ€“ c2Sanitary
  • TRANSPORT FOR LONDON โ€“ RAIL FOR LONDON INFRASTRUCTURE โ€“ RfLi Projects & Programme Integration โ€“ Elizabeth Line Signalling upgrade
  • JNP GROUP LTD โ€“ Water Lane, WAG1 โ€“ Emergency Response
  • METHOD GRID โ€“ PACE Digital โ€“ as enabling Network Rail and the UK Rail Industry
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Station Road Bridge, Quainton
  • NEXUS โ€“ Prudhoe St Junction Renewal โ€“ Sub Surface Tunnels
  • SPL POWERLINES โ€“ Offering capability to offer clients a โ€œTurn Keyโ€ solution for future projects, from early stage preliminary design through to final ORR approvals
  • STM GROUP โ€“ STM Winter Stabling Project
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ SWR Station Improvement
  • TRANSPORT FOR WALES โ€“ Delivering contactless bank card Pay As You Go ticketing to UK rail
  • WEST MIDLANDS METRO โ€“ The WWM Expansion Programme

PLANT EXCELLENCE

  • UNIPART RAIL โ€“ Transformative Rail Solutions through Strategic Collaboration: Unipart Rail and Thomson Engineering Design Ltd
  • RADIUS CRANE HIRE โ€“ Escalator Sledge

PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

  • COWAP โ€“ Palguard
  • MACRAIL โ€“ Location 360
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Tel-SMART Solution
  • NETWORK RAIL (WALES & BORDERS) โ€“ Remote Disconnection Device
  • RADIUS CRANE HIRE โ€“ Escalator Sledge
  • SICUT โ€“ Sicut Recycled Plastic Composite Sleepers
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ Sirocco & Solano
  • TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS โ€“ PANDAS-Vยฎ: Driving the Future of Rail Infrastructure Maintenance with Intelligent Pantograph and OLE Monitoring
  • TWINFIX โ€“ Great Malvern Station

SERVICE OF THE YEAR

  • DB ESG โ€“ Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Service is revolutionising the UK rail sector
  • MITIE โ€“ Euston Station โ€“ Materials recovery Facility
  • MOTT MACDONALD AND ELIZABETH LINE โ€“ Transforming our service value at the Elizabeth line
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Product Acceptance
  • RAILWAY MISSION โ€“ The Railway Mission
  • RSSB โ€“ Futures Lab
  • TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS โ€“ PANDAS-Vยฎ: Revolutionising rail infrastructure maintenance through real-time monitoring and proactive insights

TRAINING EXCELLENCE

  • ARUP โ€“ Leading Customer Operations: A Bespoke, Psychology Based Leadership Development Programme for TfLโ€™s London
  • CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF RAILWAY OPERATORS โ€“ CIRO Connect
  • GOVIA THAMESLINK RAILWAY โ€“ GTR Pathway Apprenticeship Project
  • EAST MIDLANDS RAILWAY โ€“ Apprenticeships-Ofsted-Reverse Mentoring-Leadership course
  • NETWORK RAIL โ€“ Drainage & Lineside Training Programme
  • SPL POWERLINES โ€“ Cultivating a skilled workforce for projects through apprenticeship programs
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY โ€“ SWR Learning and Development
  • TRANSPORT FOR WALES โ€“ TfW Driver Apprenticeship

YOUNG RAIL PROFESSIONAL

  • ALCHEMMY CONSULTING Gabriele Marchionni
  • ALSTOM James Snell
  • ALSTOM Paige Stallard
  • ATKINSREALIS Conor Oโ€™Donnell
  • EAST MIDLANDS RAILWAY Azzieria Tooby
  • GREAT WESTERN RAIWAY Carys Thomas
  • HITACHI RAIL STS Ajitesh Bihari
  • KIER Tom Highton
  • KIER Riana Hattrell
  • MORSON GROUP Lauren Pollitt
  • MOTION RAIL Joe Dodman
  • MOTT MACDONALD Mengxiong Luo
  • MOTT MACDONALD Carmen Peraita Sanz
  • NETWORK RAIL Kate Tomlinson
  • NETWORK RAIL Kian Emadi-Coffin
  • NEXUS Sam Richardson
  • NORTHERN TRAINS LTD Charlotte Touhey
  • OPTYMA SECURITY SOLUTIONS Lewis Dyer
  • PETARDS RAIL Logan Cook
  • SKANSKA Mohammed Al Sharif
  • STM GROUP Ana Maria Lazar
  • SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY Becky Eason
  • SYSTRA Dominic McIlgrew
  • TES 2000 LTD Ryan Raymond
  • TRANSPORT FOR WALES Catrin Wellsbury
  • TRANSPORT FOR WALES Ifan Beech
  • TXM CONSULT Connacht Sheffield
  • WEST MIDLANDS METRO Conor Moon