National Rail Awards 2025: every winner from this year’s ‘Railway Oscars’
More than 1,000 people turned out for the annual National Rail Awards on September 17. The 'Railway Oscars' ceremony took place at London's prestigious JW Marriott Grosvenor House in Park Lane, London, with 21 categories up for grabs. The awards where hosted by Nina Hossain who anchors the ITV Lunchtime News and News at Ten.
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RAIL Editor Dickon Ross said the night "remains the best night of the year for those who love and work in rail and want to celebrate the best it has to offer".
The winning and highly commended entries of the 2025 National Rail Awards were:
Innovation of the Year
Winner: Rail-Ability - Road rail ballast undercutter. Highly Commended: Network Rail & Railscape - Innovative AI and drone technology revolutionising OLE records. Highly Commended: Transmission Dynamics with Angel Trains and Network Rail - PANDAS-V: Eliminating overhead line failures with AI powered intervention.
Accessibility Achievement of the Year
Winner: Merseyrail, The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority & Stadler - Transformational New Fleet: Introduction of a publicly owned, co-designed fleet.
Highly Commended: Northern Trains in partnership with Community Rail Lancashire - Try the Train.
Infrastructure Achievement of the Year
Winner: Story Contracting, Network Rail & Pell Frischmann - Browney Curve Embankment Stabilisation Project. Highly Commended: BAM Nuttall & Network Rail - Agar Grove Overbridge Reconstruction. Highly Commended: Network Rail - National SCADA Programme.
Outstanding Teamwork Award
Winner: VolkerFitzpatrick - Radlett SRFI phase one.
Highly Commended: Merseyrail - The Grand National: Delivering a global icon. Freight & Logistics Achievement of the Year Winner: GB Railfreight MOD Project Team - Operation Immediate Response & Combined Resolved.
Highly Commended: Freightliner - Gemini.
Major Project of the Year
Winner: Babcock, Farrans Sacyr Joint Venture & Translink - Belfast Grand Central Station. Highly Commended: Levenmouth Rail Link Project.
Environmental Excellence
Winner: Network Rail Supply Chain Operations - Best in Class Low Carbon & Sustainable Track Materials. Highly Commended: GWR - Fishing for Change & Clean our Patch.
Highly Commended: Translink - Tracks to tomrrow - How Translink is leading a railway revolution for environment, nature & future generations.
Safety Achievement of the Year
Winner: Interflon, Network Rail & Irish Rail - Interflon Clean OTR. Highly Commended: Asset Insights & Network Rail Wales & Western Region - PodFlo.
Fleet Achievement of the Year
Joint Winners: Avanti West Coast - The Launch of the Evero Fleet. Joint Winners: London Northwestern & West Midlands Railways - Introduction of Class 730/0 Fleet to Birmingham's Cross City Line.
Customer Service Excellence
Winner: LNER - Package for a friend.
Highly Commended: GWR & Network Rail Western - GWR goes to Euston, and to Honda and to Didcot Railway Centre.
Great Place to Work Award
Winner: Merseyrail.
Highly Commended: Greater Anglia.
Outstanding Contribution to Society
Winner: Translink - Rails of Renewal: York Street Station's impact on track. Highly Commended: British Transport Police - County Lines Taskforce.
Small Station of the Year
Winner: Penrith - Avanti West Coast. Highly Commended: Bures - Greater Anglia.
Highly Commended: St Annes on the Sea - Northern.
Medium Station of the Year
Winner: York Street Station - Translink. Highly Commended: Leamington Spa - Chiltern Railways.
Large Station of the Year
Winner: Hull Paragon Interchange - TransPennine Express. Highly Commended: Northampton - London Northwestern Railway.
Major Station of the Year
Winner: London Bridge - Network Rail.
Highly Commended: Liverpool Lime Street - Network Rail.
Passenger Operator of the Year
Winner: Greater Anglia.
Highly Commended: Arriva Rail London. Highly Commended: Merseyrail.
NRA Special Award
Winner: Siemens Mobility.
Outstanding Personal Contribution (Frontline)
Winner: Bessie Matthews - GB Railfreight. Highly Commended: David Cranstoun - Arriva Rail London.
Outstanding Personal Contribution (Management)
Winner: Mark Montgomery - Translink.
Highly Commended: Richard Stainton - Network Rail.
Outstanding Personal Contribution (Senior Management)
Winner: Sir Andrew Haines.