Past Video Lecture: Track Monitoring by Passenger Trains
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…
Past Video Lecture: The Annual Porterbrook Lecture: Climate Change – Keeping Passengers Cool
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.…
Past Video Lecture: New Trains for the Docklands Light Railway
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…
Past Video Lecture: Rail-Related Research at the University of Derby
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.…
Past Video Lecture: East Midlands Railway – The Masterplan
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…
Past Video Lecture: Renewing the Pendolinos and replacing the Voyagers
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…
Welcome to our new President
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…
Past Video Lecture: New Presidents Address
“The UK needs Engineering, the rail industry REALLY needs Engineering” Neil Andrew (the new DRES President) provided a brief insight into his engineering career from the testing of 900MW machines…
Past Video Lecture: Early Days of HSTs on the ECML
In the first lecture of the 2023-24 season, Steve Hoather presented some recollections about the introduction of HSTs onto the East Coast Mainline and described some of the problems the…
Winner Of The Peter Parkin Memorial Lecture Competition 2023
The Society is delighted to announce that the winner of the Peter Parkin Memorial Lecture Competition 2023 is Angie Lamprea-Pineda from the University of Leeds, giving a presentation on the…