The RailStaff Awards 2024

Bill Hamblett

Said the following about NRT Integration & Provisioning:

“The NRT Integration & Provisioning team integrate new telecommunication network routers and switches and provision new circuits to enable new services to be introduced for the operating railway. Included in this are the Infrastructure Projects for re-signalling, electrification and re-controls. The nature of these projects provides many challenges that the team have to flex to deal with, such as short notice out of hours work, new last-minute technologies and movement of dates and changes within projects.

To meet this requirement the team have written their own procedures from scratch, the team ethics mean that everyone supports each other, coaching and mentoring is seen as the norm including working late and nights and liaising directly with the schemes to aid others outside of their expected remit.

The team have also learned on the job and passed that learnin g onto external contractors in order for them to meet their contractual requirements.

All in order for the projects to meet their deadlines and keep the railway running for our customers.

Generally this is seen as expected and I believe that teams like these should be recognised for going that extra mile with behaviours and work ethics and when the project gets delivered they move onto the next. I think they do a fantastic job“