Young Rail Tours (YRT)

Young Rail Tours (YRT) was founded in May 2019 on the belief in the importance of creating opportunities for young professionals within the rail industry to build experiences, develop new skills and create global networks, in order to best prepare them for their careers within rail. Within the UK rail industry, domestic and European railway study tours, catered towards young professionals, have proven extremely popular and are often oversubscribed. However, more ambitious international study programmes are typically marketed towards more senior professionals and are often prohibitively costly and time consuming, making them unattractive to young professionals and their employers. Hence, in order to overcome this barrier to the development of young rail professionals, through cross-industry collaboration, YRT delivers a mix of domestic, European and international railway study tours, made affordable, accessible and inspirational for young professionals working within the UK rail industry. In addition, YRT believes in forging links between the future leaders of the UK rail industry and our colleagues around the world, thereby building life-long relationships that will benefit the global rail community. Hence, as well as creating opportunities for young rail professionals based in the UK to visit and learn from railway networks around the world, YRT also hosts groups from other countries and facilitates tour activities for them, in order to help visiting colleagues experience the best that the UK rail industry has to offer.