UK Rail overview 2016

[NGSR]

Hi all,
New here and have an interview at a UK rail company coming up soon and just wondered if there is anywhere I can easily access a general roundup of the last year for UK rail or on the current landscape - significant developments, the big players, challenges facing it, future predictions etc. Are there any good articles, blogs etc that i should be looking at? Or anything I should be paying close attention to.

Any suggestions/ tips would be greatly appreciated.

Let me know if this is not something I should be posting /asking.

 

[SPADTrap]

It has all gone to pot and the end is nigh

 

[squizzler]

There is an annual kinda railway Bible thing (directory, industry roundup, general omnibus edition) from "Modern Railways" magazine, but I never read it.

 

[godfreycomplex]

It has all gone to pot and the end is nigh

Serious answer to the OP - try and do your best to find out the nature of your prospective job and the challenges that your prospective employer faces locally. It's a big industry in a reasonably big country; for instance I could learn about the problems of crowd management by Scotrail staff at Glasgow Queen Street; but as I work for Network Rail in the home counties in a role that doesn't directly involve crowd management it wouldn't affect me in practical terms at all.
What helped me was to think of my day-to-day journeys and how me doing the prospective job well would affect them.
Are we allowed to know what you're applying for; and for whom?

 

[Economist]

Serious answer to the OP - try and do your best to find out the nature of your prospective job and the challenges that your prospective employer faces locally.

Certainly in my experience in going for trainee driver roles, the above is very much correct. Your prospective employer will be interested in what you know about them and the challenges they face, rather than the entire railway.

Whilst it can be good to know a small amount of technical info, avoid the rulebook and don't attaempt to impress them with anything too technical if you're a going to become a trainee.