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Article: Training for the trains ; As it celebrates its first year producing the future guardians of our railways, DAVID CLENSY visits the new Network Rail base in Bristol
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2009
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Even if you pass through Bristol Parkway railway station every
day, you would be forgiven for never having noticed Network Rail's
new training centre - after all, anyone who did notice the series of
railway lines at the side of the track would assume they're simply
railway sidings.
But once you step inside the Pounds 4-million complex, which was
opened last year in a former Post Office depot, you realise there is
more to this place than mere railway tracks.
The centre is home to Network Rail's apprenticeship scheme. So
far the scheme has drawn 1,000 people into working for the company,
which maintains the track and the signals of the rail network
throughout the country.
Dan Collins, 22, of ...