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Past Video Lecture – A Day In The Life Of A Depot

Mark Coney – Head Of Engineering at East Midlands Railway presented a lecture on the Day In The Life Of A Depot on Thursday 13th October 2022. A video of…

30 September, 2022 in Video Lecture.
Annual Alstom Lecture May 2022

Past Video Lecture: The Evolution Of Alstom In The UK

The Annual Alstom Lecture was presented by Mike Hulme (Site Engineering Director at the Alstom Litchurch Lane Works) on Thursday 12th May. The lecture gave an overview of the new…

20 April, 2022 in Video Lecture.

Past Video Lecture: Cleaner, greener and quieter – making hybrid trains a reality

Porterbrook and Chiltern Railways jointly delivered a lecture that explained the journey taken with supply chain partners to create a hybrid CL168 Turbostar. To view a video of this lecture…

9 March, 2022 in Video Lecture.

Past Video Lecture: Class 69 – Breathing new life into Class 56 Locomotives

In his talk, Bob Tiller (GBRf – Engineering Strategy Director) outlined the business position within GB Railfreight Ltd in 2018 which resulted in the requirement for more freight locomotives. To…

17 February, 2022 in Video Lecture.
Richard George

Past Video Lecture: Organisation and Management of Britain’s railways – A personal perspective

Richard George has been in railway management, in a wide variety of roles, continuously since the late 1970s. His talk was a take on his personal perspective on the changes…

28 January, 2022 in Video Lecture.
Werrington In The Snow

Past Video Lecture: Faster trains on the ECML – The Werrington Grade Separation Project

The first lecture of 2022 was presented by Ricky Barsby (Business Change Lead) at LNER and Giles Clark from Network Rail. To view the lecture please log into the Member’s…

7 January, 2022 in Video Lecture.
HST With Buffers

Past Video Lecture: Taking trains abroad before the tunnel

In the late 1980s British Rail sent a number of items of rolling stock into Europe to different destinations. Dave Coxon presented a lecture describing his experience of these trips.…

30 October, 2021 in Video Lecture.
InSAR Graphic

Past Video Lecture: Satellite Radar Interferometry (InSAR) for Asset Management of Railway Infrastructure

This lecture was jointly sponsored by the Permanent Way Institution and DRES. Professor Tim Wright (Professor of Satellite Geodesy at the University of Leeds and Co-founder / Director of SatSense)…

16 October, 2021 in Video Lecture.
Transport For Wales

Past Video Lecture: All Change In Wales

Transport for Wales (TfW) is driving forward the Welsh Government’s vision of a high-quality, safe, integrated, affordable and accessible transport network that the people of Wales are proud of – a…

14 October, 2021 in Video Lecture.
CL222 EMR

Past Video Lecture: Creating a new brand identity – EMR’s Journey

Jenna Cowie (Head of Revenue and Marketing) presented the annual East Midlands Railway lecture and shared how a rail operator develops a new brand, whilst remaining sympathetic to over 180 years…

16 September, 2021 in Video Lecture.

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