Network Rail are giving you the unique opportunity to name a new railway training facility in Doncaster when it officially opens this October.
The site, in Carolina Way near Lakeside, was once the National College for High Speed Rail. Network Rail took over the building in late 2024 and have been making plans to transform the facility, which will serve as a hub for operational training, education and development for up to 1,000 rail workers from across the industry each year.
Doncaster has a proud railway heritage and now, in the 200th anniversary year of the railway, the public has a chance to play a part in its future too, by deciding which name, from a shortlist of four, will be bestowed upon the building.
The official name reveal is scheduled for October.
The shortlisted names are:
Please vote by following this link: Can you help name our new railway training facility? - Network Rail
Voting closes at midnight on Thursday 25 September.
Celebrating Doncaster’s extraordinary railway legacy
All shortlist options have been developed in collaboration with City of Doncaster Council and celebrate the city’s rich railway heritage.
Laura Smith, Network Rail’s programme manager for the new training centre, said: “This facility will allow us to provide top class training to current and future colleagues across the railway industry and builds on Doncaster’s proud railway heritage. “We want the public to help us choose a name that celebrates the city’s remarkable railway legacy. It’s fitting that during Railway 200, the people of Doncaster and railway enthusiasts everywhere can play a part in continuing the town’s railway story.”
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