Apprentices


Open
access
operator
Lumo
has
announced
that
19
out
of
20
employees
with
the
firm
began
their
railway
careers
as
apprentices,
following
a
five-year
partnership
between
Lumo
and
railway
trainers
Train’d
Up.
Lumo
said
that
78
drivers
and
other
train
staff
had
been
successfully
enrolled.
The
United
Kingdom
has
seen
the
number
of
apprenticeships
rise
by
2.5
per
cent
over
the
past
year.  

Station
name


The
name
of
a
new
station
on
the
Dartmoor
Line
between
Exeter
and
Okehampton
has
been
decided.
When
passenger services
were
restored
west
of
Crediton
in
November
2021
it
was
already
known
that
an
additional
station
was
proposed
on the
outskirts
of
Okehampton,
tentatively
called
Okehampton
Parkway.
Since
regular
train
services
were
launched
passenger figures
have
been
well
above
expectations,
and
the
original
two-hourly
frequency
was
later
doubled
to
hourly.
The
name
of
the new
station,
costing
around
£13
million
and
funded
by
the
Government’s
Levelling-Up
scheme,
has
now
been
confirmed
as Okehampton
Interchange.
It
will
have
a
larger
car
park
and
better
bus
services
than
the
existing
station
near
Okehampton town
centre.