Chiltern Railways

A great opportunity here at Chiltern working directly to me leading our Control, Resources and Special Events teams. The job holder will need to balance day to day delivery with developing the function as Chiltern grows. Resilience, a drive to make tomorrow even better and sense of humour essential.

As a key commuter and leisure hub on our network, we are very pleased to announce that work has begun on several improvement projects at Banbury station. The projects include the creation of new toilets in the lower ticket hall and the refurbishment of the café and overbridge area, creating a new Costa Coffee retail unit in partnership with Caterleisure Group later this year. The station will also undergo a full internal repaint in early 2025. In preparation for the first stage of improvements, Banbury has been deep cleaned by specialist contractors over the past three months. Caterleisure Group Oxfordshire County Council Cherwell District Council

We are overjoyed to have taken home not one but two awards at the Railway Innovation Awards on Friday (21 June). Firstly, we won the Environment and Sustainability award for the Implementation of HVO Fuel in the Class 68s. Launching in July 2023, this was the first instance of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) being used in passenger service in the UK. This was a big step in the right direction for our focus on delivering our Right Route 2030 vision. Secondly, alongside our friends at CGA Experience and CrossCountry Trains, we won the People, Skills and Diversity award for the CGA Empathy Lab. The lab tests the power of empathy training and by using immersive content, provides staff with skills they can use in conflict and emotional situations to enhance the customer experience. Thank you to lead judges and prize presenters (Jo Lewington BSc(Hons) MRICS and Adeline Ginn MBE), and Modern Railways for a brilliant day which honoured members of the Chiltern Railways team for their hard work and perseverance on these crucial projects. #UKRailInnovationsAwards2024 #railwayawards #empathytraining #hvofuel

We couldn’t be prouder to introduce our new Shareholder I Squared Capital, following the completion of the transaction which includes the whole of the Arriva Group. We can’t wait to work together and forge a dynamic future for passenger transport, with the investment of a highly reputable infrastructure investor. We will continue to work alongside our passenger transport authority clients, delivering a sustainable future for our colleagues and the communities we serve throughout Europe. I Squared share our ambition to decarbonise our fleets and grow our business so we can be stronger than ever. Our CEO, Mike Cooper, welcomed the news and said: “Closing this transaction marks an important milestone and an exciting new chapter for Arriva”. Read our press release here ➡ https://gloo.to/F4tv

Great atmosphere at Birmingham Pride today with colleagues from Chiltern Railways and the wider Arriva UK Trains businesses. Well done Martin Brady for all the organising and keeping everyone where they should be today!

We're delighted to unveil a community-led refresh of the Dorridge ticket hall! The Friends of Dorridge Station and the Heart of England CRP supported the delivery of the project, which included the deep cleaning and repainting of the ticket hall, as well as the refurbishment of heritage features, ensuring that the station is fit for the future while preserving its history and original charms. Joined by Saqib Bhatti MP MBE and community partners, we celebrated our wonderful volunteer group, who deserve significant credit for delivering community improvements at Dorridge station over the past 15 years. Next week marks Community Rail Week - a time to celebrate community activity across rail stations in the UK. If you’re looking to adopt your local station or apply for funding for a community project, you can visit https://lnkd.in/eiH6KNzC! 

📣 The Chiltern Railways Community Investment Fund has now gone live for 2024/5! 💸 Our fund is open for not-for-profit organisations to deliver community rail projects that add social, economic or environmental value for local people. If you have a compelling community project or an innovative idea to improve a station, then we encourage you to apply for funding of between £10k and £25k. 🚆 Previous projects range from rail education visits for school children to the delivery of community artwork projects to brighten up station spaces. 🙏 Please ensure the group is registered as a charity or not-for-profit organisation and operates within 5 miles of a Chiltern Railways managed station.   Click here to access our application form ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eiH6KNzC and read about some of the great work done last year in the article below!

Train operator Chiltern Railways has released its latest Social Value Report for 2023. The report measures the impact that Chiltern’s operations have on the communities it serves through contributing to economic activity, providing social connections and protecting the environment through promoting public transport use. The independent assessment was undertaken by transport consultancy Steer using a quantitative methodology known as an Economic Impact Assessment.  #railnews #railways #ukrail #rail 

📢 We have released our latest Social Value Report for 2023, which measures the impact our operations have on the communities we serve, through contributing to economic activity, providing social connections and protecting our environment through promoting public transport use. 💙 The latest analysis shows that Chiltern grew our social value contribution by £284.5 million in 2023 - which means it now totals £1.3 billion! 📈 These trends show that Chiltern is a growing organisation, with colleagues living and contributing to the economies of 58 of the UK’s 121 postcode areas. Our supply chain activity is also spread across the width and breadth of the UK, from the north east of Scotland to the West Midlands. 🤝 We have also delivered a broad range of community engagement programmes in 2023, from providing £120k of funding to 12 projects through our Community Investment Fund, to engaging with over 100 volunteers carrying out projects to improve station environments and community cohesion across our network. You can read the full report here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e5rPqDCA

🚌⚡ Last week, we attended the launch of a new electric vehicle for the Bicester Village – Bicester North shuttle service. 💚 The introduction of the zero-emission vehicle further underlines Oxford Bus Company, Bicester Village and Chiltern Railways’ commitment to providing sustainable travel solutions for shoppers and workers at the designer retail outlet. The move also supports our 2030 Vision to deliver a decarbonised and modernised railway by the end of the decade, helping to improve air quality for local communities. 🛠️ Manufactured by Wrightbus in Ballymena, Northern Ireland the Electroliner GB Kite single deck vehicle has 38 seats and a 454kwh battery pack and an expected range of more than 200 miles per day on a single charge. 📅 The service - which is jointly funded by Value Retail and Chiltern Railways - operates 364 days per year to provide a sustainable bus connection for visitors to Bicester.