The awards celebrate the outstanding achievements and recognise the excellent work consistently carried out by the best talent in Rail Human Resources, Recruitment and Training.

It is also a celebration of the considerable HR and Human Capital contribution to the success of the Rail industry.

We’re looking for nominations in:

Best Executive Search company in Rail

Best Labour Supply Agency

Best New Entrant Programme / Campaign

Best People Strategy (Resourcing, Skills, HR)

Best Rail Professional Recruitment company

Best Recruitment Campaign

Best Training Organisation or Team

HR Manager / Director of the Year

HR Team of the Year

Outstanding Contribution to the Rail Industry

Trainer of the Year

Nominate online at www.railhrawards.com

Our guests were welcomed in to the Rail Seventeen Club with a Long Island Tea cocktail served in our very own souvenir cups and saucers. Then they were whisked off in a 1920’s New York Street, full of lamps, crates and street signs.

After the drinks reception, Fat Tony opened his Speakeasy and our guests went in for a wonderful 4 course meal. Then Fat Tony welcomed on stage, the hoofers of the Rail Seventeen Club, who dazzled our guests with their stunning Charleston moves. We were then on to the main event, the Awards. What worthy winners we had! When David Maidment received his Lifetime Achievement award there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.

Unfortunately, the awards didn’t go quite to plan. Half way through, the cops raided the place! After a fight, a trial and a shoot out, the place was calm once more and we could continue with the remainder of the awards.  After the awards, Fully Funktional rocked the house and if our guests didn’t want to dance, they could lose some green in the Gambler’s Den.

Huge congratulations to all our winners. You have joined the very exclusive RailStaff Awards Winner’s Club!

Want to join us next year? Then don’t delay, early bird tickets are on sale now.

For the video highlights, see here and for photos, see here.

Rail Media, an Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire based media company require a Junior / Middleweight creative graphic designer with 2+ years experience, who is as big on ideas as on the craft of design.

Before you read on – experience in these skills are essential:

* Quark – Essential
* Photoshop & Illustrator – Essential
* Mac literate – Essential

Got those? Excellent. You must be capable of producing outstanding, fully-realised campaign ideas, from conception through to completion of final print-ready / web-ready / digital-ready artwork which will demonstrated via your portfolio.

The ideal candidate will be a bright spark who is extremely organised and able to prioritise work accordingly. You will have an excellent eye for detail – as you will be required to read documents to detect and correct text errors and speeling mistakes. Technical know-how is an advantage.

Rail Media is a successful, growing business which creates three print publications, fourteen industry websites, two award ceremonies and several industry conferences.

If you have not heard from the recruiting officer within two weeks of the closing date please assume you have not been successful. Thank you for the interest in the post and our organisation.

To apply, please click Apply Now on the RailwayPeople.com job, or send your CV, portfolio and covering note to jobs@rail-media.com

On Friday 16th September we’ll be heading over to the Rail Alliance as they throw open their doors at the Long Marston Railways Storage facility near Stratford on Avon for Macro Rail 2011.

They’ve invited the rail industry to come along and look at over 50 of their member companies demonstrating and exhibiting their products and services, for free – that’s right up our street, so we’ll be there.

The former MOD facility was used as a logistical depot for the D-Day Landings has been used as a railway storage facility for over 1000 pieces of rolling stock for the last few years and has over 20 miles of private track with 125 run offs and sidings.

Rail Alliance members will be carrying out live exhibitions around the depot facility, the track area and inside one of the hangars.

Confirmed so far are live welding demonstrations, tamping machine demonstrations, vegetation embankment control and a new road rail shunting machine.

So, we’ll see you there from 10am to 4pm – speak to Rhona Clarke on 01789 720 026 (info@railalliance.co.uk) for more information.