DRES Annual Dinner 2026
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…
Video Lecture: Long Marston Infrastructure Upgrade – From Delivery Into Operation
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…
Video Lecture: Engineering Assurance and Project Delivery – Progressive Digitalisation
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…
Video Lectures – Energy Harvesting and Intelligent Rail Infrastructure Monitoring By UoD
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…
Let’s Debate Rail
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…
Video Lecture: ETCS On Heritage and Charter Trains
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…
DRES Winter Newsletter 2025
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…
Video Lecture: Made in Derby: Loram’s First UK Built On Track Machine
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…
Jennifer Gladding From Loram UK Joins Our Cohort Of Vice Presidents
For more information about Jennifer and the other Vice Presidents of our Society please visit our President and VP page.
Video Lecture: HS2 Area North – Construction of the Delta Junction
Jim Richings, Technical Director at Balfour Beatty VINCI Joint Venture presented a lecture on the construction of the HS2 Delta Junction near Coleshill in Warwickshire. A video of this lecture…
Welcome To Our New President – Ray Pettit
We are delighted to announce that Ray Pettit has been elected as the new President of the Society at our recent AGM. Ray will serve as President for the next…