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Are we doing enough to attract young people to the rail industry?

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0 Roy Bowdler over 4 years ago

I don’t have direct experience of working in the Rail Industry but I keep up an interest in several ways in both current and heritage railways. After all one of my “local heroes” (member of our institution number 324) was a pioneer of railway electrification, among other achievements.

I was delighted to see via RTM that “one of our own” Anna Delvecchio was honoured recently . Amey’s commercial account director, Anna Delvecchio, for her insight into what the Rail Sector Deal means for the rail industry and its supply chain. Anna started her career as an apprentice at the age of 16 in an electromechanical engineering organisation and most recently played a key role co-leading the Industrial Strategy Sector Deal for Rail, which was confirmed in December 2018.”

I haven’t met Anna and can only piece together some fragments of her career story for the publicity, but it seems that like so many who followed this type of Apprenticeship her pathway into chartered status and senior management by-passed the type of recognition that we have to offer, but that is a pretty familiar pattern that I won’t comment on further here, except to observe that she seems to have overcome barriers of both gender and class on her journey. Perhaps reminiscent of Faye Banks https://qeprize.org/createthefuture/faye-banks-national-grid/ who managed to find her way to Chartered Engineer in the face of similar barriers? Go Faye!

I haven’t met Mark Carne the former Head of Network Rail either, although I worked with the Father of one of his predecessors Iain Coucher. However, I would commend these two pieces of leadership
http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/stigma-against-apprenticeships-must-end-says-network-rail-boss
http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/nr-to-tackle-gender-imbalance-by-shortlisting-qualified-women-for-jobs
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0 Roy Bowdler over 4 years ago

I don’t have direct experience of working in the Rail Industry but I keep up an interest in several ways in both current and heritage railways. After all one of my “local heroes” (member of our institution number 324) was a pioneer of railway electrification, among other achievements.

I was delighted to see via RTM that “one of our own” Anna Delvecchio was honoured recently . Amey’s commercial account director, Anna Delvecchio, for her insight into what the Rail Sector Deal means for the rail industry and its supply chain. Anna started her career as an apprentice at the age of 16 in an electromechanical engineering organisation and most recently played a key role co-leading the Industrial Strategy Sector Deal for Rail, which was confirmed in December 2018.”

I haven’t met Anna and can only piece together some fragments of her career story for the publicity, but it seems that like so many who followed this type of Apprenticeship her pathway into chartered status and senior management by-passed the type of recognition that we have to offer, but that is a pretty familiar pattern that I won’t comment on further here, except to observe that she seems to have overcome barriers of both gender and class on her journey. Perhaps reminiscent of Faye Banks https://qeprize.org/createthefuture/faye-banks-national-grid/ who managed to find her way to Chartered Engineer in the face of similar barriers? Go Faye!

I haven’t met Mark Carne the former Head of Network Rail either, although I worked with the Father of one of his predecessors Iain Coucher. However, I would commend these two pieces of leadership
http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/stigma-against-apprenticeships-must-end-says-network-rail-boss
http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/nr-to-tackle-gender-imbalance-by-shortlisting-qualified-women-for-jobs
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