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For over 40 years, trains have been kept safe on the world’s railways thanks to a piece of software developed in Derby by British Rail called Vampire. Owen Evans (Principal…
Mike Edwards (CEO of Meteor Power) presented a lecture on how to make existing diesel railway traction greener. A video of this lecture can be viewed by Members. Simply log…
The Society is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 Peter Parkin Memorial Lecture competition is Samuel Hurst from the University of Derby. His video entry and summary…
Chris Coates and Jonathon Stelling from Omnicom Balfour Beatty gave a lecture to the Society on the development of track monitoring from in service passenger trains. A video of this…
The Annual Porterbrook Lecture was given this year by Colin Musisi (Development Engineer) and Sami Ghebacheon (Project Engineer) on how to keep passengers cool in the face of climate change.…
Dave Collins (Rolling Stock Engineer) from KeolisAmey Docklands Ltd presented a lecture on the new train fleet for Docklands Light Railway (DLR). To view a video of the lecture, please…
Professor Chris Sansom (Head of Zero Carbon Research at the University of Derby) took us on a journey through the recent history of rail research at the University of Derby.…
The first DRES event of 2024 was the annual East Midlands Railways (EMR) lecture which was delivered by Ian Hyde (EMR Fleet Director). To view a video of Ian’s lecture…
Martin Ward (Deputy Rolling Stock Director) from the West Coast Partnership Development and Liam Hockings (New Fleet Introduction Manager) from Avanti West Coast gave a lecture on the current and…
DRES is delighted to announce the appointment of Neil Andrew as the new President of the society for the next 2 years. Neil was appointed President of the Society at…