Looking at the Past, Present and Future of the Railway Industry.
Open to all with an interest in Railways.
The first DRES lecture of 2025 was presented by Paul Roebuck (Production Performance Manager) from Freightliner UK. The presentation explored Freightliner’s journey on the Class 66 locomotive fleet with Remote…
Matt Parkin (Contractors Engineering Manager for the MMLE Electrification from Kettering to Wigston) from SPL Powerlines UK (SPL) presented a lecture about the challenges and innovation for new electrification schemes.…
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…
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…