The Algorithm Age

Helen Gander, 40, has been a train driver since 2008. She is one of a growing number of women working in the rail industry and has dedicated much of her time to advocating for more women and neurodiverse people to join the industry. Here she talks about why it’s a dream job for her I moved to London from Warrington, Cheshire, when I was 18 with no job and no real plan except for hanging out with friends and being with a girl I’d met. I had to find something to keep myself afloat, so I applied to do whatever was available: telesales, telemarketing, railways – anything. Thameslink was the first company that gave me an interview and, eventually, a job at St Alban’s station as a train dispatcher. I was the one standing on the platform, blowing the whistle – I loved it. I worked with a great bunch of people. It was a great job and I’ve never looked back. I then became a shunter, which involves helping to move trains in and out of depots, and becoming a train driver after...

There are renewed calls for authorities to provide specialised training for drivers towing caravans as more and more vehicles hit Australian roads . It follows an increase in accidents involving caravans , as experts argue a focus on safe towing education can reduce the road fatality rate . This week, Queensland released its Transport and Main Roads Budget for the upcoming year, and while industry experts praised its focus on safe driving initiatives, they are calling for subsidising towing courses for drivers to help make roads safer. "There's a lot involved in the application of connecting the recreational vehicle to the car, that's one thing, but then there's actually how to tow and manoeuvre safely on the road and respond to certain conditions," Jason Plant from Caravan and Trade Industries Association Queensland (CTIAQ) told Yahoo News. "We think a stand-alone, subsidised towing course would be of great benefit to road safety in gen...