Did you know the railway has lots of jobs involving the environment, ecology and biodiversity?
Network Rail is one of Britain’s biggest landowners so we have an important responsibility to look after the wildlife on and around the railway.
Find out from Caitlin and Octavia what it’s like to work with the environment at Network Rail – and why the railway is “a treasure trove of plants and animals”.
Caitlin McCann，基础设施项目的生态学家，南部地区
“我确保我们在我们的铁路上的工作考虑所有栖息地，植物和野生动物。亚搏彩票软件官网网络铁路必须维持铁路，所以每个人都可以在不忘记铁路的情况下工作，这是我们最受欢迎的一些物种的生活！
“我喜欢生态问题正在进入网络铁路中的中心焦点，我可以与人们谈论纽特斯，蝙蝠和獾 - 我最喜欢的一些动物。亚搏彩票软件官网
“I love arranging volunteering days with local charities such as theAmphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust,国家信任, and local wildlife trusts. I love teaching my colleagues about UK biodiversity and doing my best to make sure we leave the railway in a better manner than which we found it.
“我想成为一名越来越多的海洋生物学家。我出生在波士顿，想学习往往占据游泳海滩的大白鲨！所以我前往北爱尔兰（我爸爸去大学的地方）并研究了海洋生物学。我最终学习了用于跟踪棱龟的铅棱龟的技术。
“I moved to Wales to study at斯旺西大学继续我的乌龟痴迷，但嫩芽半岛的沙丘和栖息地着迷了我，我将我的学习课程改为英国爬行动物和两栖动物。我最终得到了生态学家的工作，我从未回头过！“
Octavia Midgley, head of safety and sustainable development, Capital Delivery, Eastern Region, Network Rail
“我管理一支安全和可持续发展专家团队，跨越新的东部地区, making sure we deliver industry leading projects in a safe and sustainable way.
“I love the variety of my job, strategy planning, problem solving and engaging with people. I also love that every day I feel I make a positive difference through my work.
“我已经跨越网络轨道的一系列项目，从信令项目到亚搏彩票软件官网交叉靶影and Great West Electrification and most recently theTranspennine route upgrade.
“A good project I worked on while in signalling saw us convert an old relay room by the railway into a bat house using materials recycled from a demolished signal box, we had bats move in within the year! A first for the railway.
“我也幸运地建立了在Transpennine路线升级上的奇妙可持续发展团队（约克和曼彻斯特之间的铁路线上的主要计划），以确保我们从环境方面留下积极的遗产，也是社会值方面。
“我一直想与动物和我真的enjoyed geography and biology at school. After leaving school I decided to do a degree in zoology and then an MSc in ecology and environment management and during that time volunteered on a range of conservation projects in the UK and oversees.
“After my degree I became an ecologist, working on a range of construction projects, providing specialist advice on how to protect plants and animals in the project area, and eventually I ended up on the railway, which is a treasure trove of plants and animals!”
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