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ACTING AS ONE TEAM

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

ASSET MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE

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

BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY – INFRASTRUCTURE

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

BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY – PASSENGER IMPACT

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

COMMITMENT TO SAFETY

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

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

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

DELIVERING FOR THE CUSTOMER

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

INNOVATIVE ROLLING STOCK

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

NET ZERO PIONEER

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

OPERATOR OF THE YEAR

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

OUTSTANDING PROJECT (OVER £20M)

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

OUTSTANDING PROJECT (UNDER £20M)

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

PLANT EXCELLENCE

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

PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

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

SERVICE OF THE YEAR

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

TRAINING EXCELLENCE

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

YOUNG RAIL PROFESSIONAL

  • ALCHEMMY CONSULTING – Gabriele Marchionni
  • ALSTOM – James Snell
  • ALSTOM – Paige Stallard
  • ATKINSREALIS – Conor O’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