the biggest commercial imperative to building an inclusive culture within the rail industry, is to retain their train drivers.

Train drivers are the core role in any rail operation, and they:

 - Take a long time to train

 - Are expensive to train, so

 - You don't want to lose them once they are fully trained. 

I recently saw a post from Auckland Transport about the new City Rail Link project, which will open during 2026. To be fully operational they need to train 270 drivers, and it takes 12 months to train a driver from scratch.