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David Horton (Chief Mechanical Engineer) and Julian Fletcher (Technology Development Manager) both form Great Western Railway (GWR) will present a lecture on the GWR Fast Charge Battery Train Trial. This…
The Society is delighted to announce and welcome Sam Newcombe-Malins from Alstom as our latest Vice President (VP). Sam replaces Colin Scott who has now retired and will provide the…
Tom Camps from the Class 507 Preservation Society told the story of the PEP units that were developed in Derby in the 1970s alongside the HSTs. These trains brought a…
As we look towards autumn, the Society is delighted to announce its Lecture Programme for the new season, put together by our Lectures Secretary – Jimmy Austin. Once again, we…
The penultimate event of the 2025-26 season was our Annual Dinner. We had a fantastic turnout of 121 guests and Members. Our guest speakers included Ben Ackroyd (Chief Operating Officer…
The winner of the 2026 Peter Parkin Memorial Competition is Sam Pointon from Arup. In a very tight competition of 4 excellent entries, Sam’s presentation on Remote Condition Monitoring won…
The Annual Alstom Lecture was presented this year by Stephen Cox – Head of Signalling Products at Alstom. Stephen described the developments of new technologies in railway signalling and the…
The Society in conjunction with the Young Rail Professionals (YRP) have collaborated in the development of a railway orientated mentoring scheme. The scheme has been developed by Helen Simpson one…
DRES was delighted to welcome Neal Fleming, Senior Programme Manager and Ralph Swaney, Head of Technical Services (Electrical, ETCS & Cyber) both from Porterbrook, to provide an update of the…
Our lecture in March 2026 was jointly sponsored by the IET and DRES and we were delighted to welcome James Connolly, Director of Transportation and Infrastructure at Evifile Ltd. James…
Our event in February was a double lecture presented by 2 Senior Lecturers from the University of Derby. Dr. Uchenna Diala presented on the topic of Energy Harvesting within the…
DRES and the Young Rail Professionals (YRP) were delighted to host our first joint event at the Let’s Debate Rail evening. Sincere thanks to our panellists:- Also a big thank…
The first DRES lecture of 2026 was presented by Graeme Bunker-James of the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust. Graeme described the challenges faced by the team of introducing European Train Control…
A message from the President of the Society To start this winter newsletter, I would like to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year. I…
The Society’s December lecture was presented by Daniel Liddle (Engineering Manager) and Matt Corran (Senior Project Engineer) at Loram UK on the development and construction of their first On Track…
