CORUS Rail Consultancy, the nearly £17 million turnover York-based organisation has won two railway industry accolades in a month.

It has been chosen as Consultant of the Year 2001 by the New Civil Engineer magazine; and now it has been highly commended in The Railway Forum Innovations Awards

The Consultant of the Year award, in the medium-sized consultancy category, recognised that Corus, at its headquarters in Hudson House, York, had doubled in size over the past five years and diversified its range of specialist railway services to the industry.

The top commendation was in recognition of the York firm's state-of-the-art driver training 3D route simulation, produced for Railtrack's Leeds 1st project.

Hugh Fenwick, the firm's managing director who attended both awards ceremonies with his civil engineering director Trevor Richardson, said: "We are naturally delighted to have won acclaim from two different sectors of the rail industry."