Visit To Severn Valley Railway
The rescheduled visit the Severn Valley Railway at Kidderminster will now take place on the 9th Sept 2026. All previously purchased tickets will be honoured. The visit will include a…
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…
And The Winner Is…
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…
Video Lecture: Railway Signalling Into The Future
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…
DRES and YRP Mentoring Scheme
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…
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…