Research and Reports

Back on Track

to ten years, which will peak in 2025. It also exposes the added hurdles of an ageing workforce with some 28% of current rail workers aged over 50, and a continued failure to attract a diverse range of applicants with only 16% of the workforce being female. Among the report’s seven principal recommendations is the need for government and relevant partners to consider launching an awareness raising campaign, the utilisation of the green agenda to attract a new generation of people in the industry, and to make mid-career entry to the industry and skills-transfer more frictionless.