So, how does your business deal with recruiting skilled personnel? Are you struggling?  Do you have to recruit from overseas? Well, you might be interested in the following facts which highlight the issues being faced by the rail industry today! A report on rail skills by the City & Guilds & National Skills Academy for

Network Rail £116m Resignalling Scheme Network Rail is set to reach a major milestone investing £116m into a state-of-the-art resignalling scheme.  The company intends to switch on all 116 digital signals installed across parts of South West London & Berkshire. The project also included installing 11 kilometres of new cabling all housed in 14 kilometres

Want To Know Who the Construction Industry Best Payers Are? Well according to trade body Build UK, Amey, ISG, Costain, Osborne , Lendlease, Ferrovial & Morgan Sindall are currently ranked as the top 7 construction faster payment companies.  Do You Agree? However, some contractors have challenged this self-reporting data because it’s based on the number

DigiSig Rail would like to send our congratulations to Simon Walkley who is now the Group Managing Director for Buckingham Group.  Simon has taken over from Ian McSeveney who due to long term health reasons recently tendered his resignation. Despite his health McSeveney will remain with the company until the end of this year to

OverviewAfter conducting a detailed review of Network Rail’s plans for England & Wales it includes two scenarios for expenditure. The first assumes that a £0.5 billion centrally managed fund is used to manage risks that emerge during CP7. The second is a ‘risk-adjusted’ plan which is supported by descoping up to £1.5 billion of renewals

As a company working in the rail industry we are strongly behind any safety initiatives which improve the safety of our workers or indeed those people using the rail system. Our mantra is “safe, secure & home to our families everyday.” That’s why we are behind “Rail Safety Week” which is an industry lead initiative

It’s British Heart Week from the 7th to the 15th June. Heart disease is one of the UK’s leading diseases and it is responsible for every 1 in 4 deaths. As a rail signalling design company, we understand that working on the UK’s rail infrastructure can often entail working shifts, unsociable hours and long weekends! All

Nearly a third of UK businesses are adapting their growth strategy to navigate around the financial challenges being caused by the cost-of-living crisis.    A recent HSBC survey revealed that 20 per cent of businesses feel optimistic and that they are ready for growth after the pandemic. Some of the biggest areas of opportunities that

£890m Feasibility Study for Rail Link in Oxfordshire Oxford County Council issued a preliminary strategic outline case study for a new rail route which would connect Carterton, Witney and Eynsham to Oxford. The case study stated that a line for the Carterton-Witney-Oxford Rail Corridor is feasible and would be profitable especially as the A40 is

We’ve done it again and we are extremely pleased to announce that we have passed our Annual RISQS Audit with no major or minor nonconformities. As a business we continually strive for excellence in all our processes and procedures and we would like to say a big thank you to all the DigiSig team who