About Us

trainpeople.co.uk is a dynamic organisation which supplies UK train companies with commercial, retail and operational staff on a temporary basis. From our London and Perth offices we service companies throughout the UK - offering highly-skilled, experienced and well-motivated temporary staff for a wide variety of roles and our rates are extremely competitive.

Our training programmes equip individuals with the skills, knowledge and behaviour necessary to deliver a consistently excellent level of service and are specifically developed to meet the needs of all levels of personnel from frontline staff to senior managers.

trainpeople company background

Formed in October 2001 by a team of railway training consultants, Ptarmigan brings together many years of hands-on frontline and management railway experience and aims to exceed customer expectations, on time, every time.

Our temporary staff are highly-skilled, courteous and proactive teamworkers who will delight your customers and become excellent ambassadors for your business.

Why Use Temporary Staff ?

  • Annual leave to cover? Sickness? Maternity? High peaks in demand?
  • Outsourcing manpower makes good commercial sense.
  • Gives you more time to concentrate on your core business without damaging quality.
  • Matching supply with demand requires innovative and flexible staffing and recruitment solutions, which eats into valuable management time.
  • Simply to share the resource, by hiring trained temporary staff when there are peaks in demand.

Why use us ?

We specialise in railways, so when you call, you will find we speak the same language as you, we understand the situations you are facing and can suggest quick and effective solutions.

  • We have a dedicated team of recruitment specialists are looking to find the perfect candidate for you and to look after your needs.
  • We are reliable, flexible and easy to do business with.
  • All of our temps have 3 years’ checked work references, are thoroughly briefed on Drugs & Alcohol policies, Codes of Conduct and customer service excellence.
  • Our temps are carefully selected to ensure they have all the necessary training, skills, experience and expertise to satisfy your business needs.

Our ticket office temps are trained on Fujitsu Star, Tribute, Shere SMART, Cubic FASTIS and RJIS. All our ticket examiners and revenue protection team are trained on Avantix.