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Satnam Thiara wins Newcomer/Graduate of the Year - Railstaff Trade
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12 Oct 2010 ⋅ by Gemma ⋅ in Rail News ⋅ 0 Comments ⋅ Tags: awards, bridgeway, cleshar, edward welsh, iain
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Satnam Thiara (Left)
Satnam Thiara, sales and marketing manager at Bridgeway Consulting Ltd, has won this
year’s Newcomer /Graduate of the Year Award sponsored by Cleshar.
Says Tom O’Connor, Rail Media Group, which organises the awards, ‘Congratulations to
Satnam who is a real credit to Bridgeway. He has a degree in Business Management and
comes from Derby, a traditional railway town. Satnam is part of the new generation of
railway people taking forward the dynamics of the fast growing and hugely successful new
rail industry. Well done, Satnam.’
Satnam joined Bridgeway in June 2009 and is a relative newcomer to the rail industry with
less than two years experience, having previously worked in the IT and communications
industry. At Nottingham-based Bridgeway Consulting, Satnam took up the role of Sales and
Marketing Manager, with responsibility for the development of safety critical training. He
had a remit to increase the training business turnover and raise the profile within the
industry of what had been a low key and a relatively small division of the business. His

2. success in turning the operation around has been immense. Colleagues at Bridgeway say he
has also helped to lift the profile of the Company by developing new marketing strategies. He
has expanded the portfolio of clients and with his easy going and helpful manner has won
over many new customers.
Bridgeway Consulting is a Principal Contractor licence holder with Network Rail, thus
allowing them to manage a multitude of projects from inception to completion. Bridgeway
Consulting carries out a vast array of engineering roles across the rail network and abroad,
which includes diving & roped access structural inspections through to permanent way
works, track & structure alignment surveys, site and ground investigations through to
detailed multi-disciplinary civil engineering projects. Other services provided to clients
include track access and possession management, on-track security, training & assessments
and assurance & compliance services.
Cleshar, which sponsored the Newcomer/Graduate of the Year Award, is a UK-based
contractor in facilities management, maintenance, construction support and capital works
with particular expertise where safety critical resources are required. Based in North West
London and with a special national rail office in Lenham, Kent, Cleshar is constantly on the
look out for talented people to join the team. In the rail industry Cleshar’s activities span the
national rail network, Docklands Light Railway and the London Underground. The company
has been trading since 1993.
The RailStaff Awards, now in its fourth year, celebrates the courage and heroism of the
thousands of working people who make up Britain’s fast expanding rail industry. The
RailStaff Awards is organised by the Rail Media Group, publishers of RailStaff, the leading
industry newspaper specialising in good news stories about the railways and the people who
work on them. RMG also publishes the rail engineer magazine taking an in-depth look at
railway engineering developments. WWW.railwaypeople.com is a specialist rail recruitment
web site also run by RMG. The next RailStaff Awards will be on 8th October 2011 at the
International Convention Centre, Birmingham.
Over 500 railway staff and their families attended the RailStaff Awards at the International
Convention Centre, Birmingham. Pete Waterman hosted the evening which opened with
brief speeches of welcome by Edward Welsh, director of corporate affairs at the Association
of Train Operating Companies (ATOC), and Iain Coucher chief executive of Network Rail.

3. ATOC and Network Rail are Associate Sponsors of the RailStaff Awards. After dinner
comedian Alun Cochrane delighted the proceedings. After the actual awards railway staff
danced the night away to band Fully FunKtional. ‘It was a great night out, a family get
together and a celebration as well as a brilliant party,’ says Gemma King, organiser of the
evening and the main manager of the RailStaff Awards.