18-19 June 2025
Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre
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Engineering

Gain actionable insights into rolling stock strategy, railway electrification, tackling an ageing infrastructure, machine learning,  climate resilience and more.

Sponsored by:

Pandrol

    Engineering Theatre
    Amidst all the political to-ing and fro-ing, High Speed 2 and its contractors have been getting on with building the UK's first intercity mainline in decades if not a century. Some spectacular enginee …
    Engineering Theatre
    Privatisation has failed to deliver a coherent rolling stock strategy resulting in non standard stock, waste, incompatibility and boom and bust. How do we plan for a better future? How do we prepare f …
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    As often gets raised by the public frustrated by noisy, unreliable or polluting trains - if the alternatives to electrification are so good, why is electrification almost universally the right answer …
    Engineering Theatre
    Carmont has not been the only recent event where the secondary effects of climate change on the operation of the railway became tragically evident. Potentially the most critical element of this respon …
    Engineering Theatre
    With Network Rail's test tracks seeing a re-launch and a new strategy, GCRE building momentum and Porterbrook deploying their own testing facility literally around us, it is an exciting time for railw …
    Engineering Theatre
    Culture war baiting to one side, all of the evidence shows that more diverse teams are more effective and efficient at operating and rising to challenges - and appealing to greater diversity widens th …
Policy & Leadership
Covering themes such as the role and priorities of the government, the future of open access, devolved responsibilities, accessibility, freight operations and more.
    Policy & Leadership Theatre
    Holding GBR to account: will GBR deliver real benefits for passengers and freight within a culture of innovation?
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    How will Wales, Scotland and the English Regions deliver their rail strategies within a new centralised system?
    Policy & Leadership Theatre
    Is open access the future for TOCs with nationalisation looming? With ORR considering a record number of open access applications, how will these be accommodated within a national structure and what w …
    Policy & Leadership Theatre
    With just 5 years to go until 2030 – the date by which signatories of the Paris Agreement commit to having reducing carbon emissions by 45% - sustainably and carbon reduction are now written into Publ …
Rail Safety Week Conference

Exploring key topics shaping the future of rail safety, technology, and regulation. From passenger safety to workforce protection, this is where critical conversations will happen. 

In partnership with:

Rail Forum

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Engineering

Gain actionable insights into rolling stock strategy, railway electrification, tackling an ageing infrastructure, machine learning,  climate resilience and more.

Sponsored by:

Pandrol

    Engineering Theatre
    Without using digital command and control systems – focussed around ETCS – it is not going to be possible to keep up with the rate of renewal of life-expiring signalling across the GB rail network. Di …
    Engineering Theatre
    Network Rail's Insight tool is a world leading tool in predictive maintenance. It uses AI to predict faults up to a year in advance, allowing teams to fix faults before they cause delays. This session …
    Engineering Theatre
    Engineering Theatre
    Climate change isn't a future problem. Today's railway is facing rapidly increasing pressures from what is often termed as global "weirding" as weather patterns change - and the railway is consequentl …
Policy & Leadership
Covering themes such as the role and priorities of the government, the future of open access, devolved responsibilities, accessibility, freight operations and more.
    Policy & Leadership Theatre
    Policy & Leadership Theatre
    What a roadmap for change should look like and what are the criteria and opportunities (financial, social, economic, etc) for a successful British railway
    Policy & Leadership Theatre
    We talk to former managing director of Scotland's Railway and now director general, Rail Services, at the DfT about what GBR could learn from the partnership, cooperation and operation of the ScotRail …
    Policy & Leadership Theatre
    The role of Government in creating a sustainable, successful future for the railway - what are the priorities?
    Policy & Leadership Theatre
    In all the talk of a passenger-focussed railway, freight operations get all too easily bumped into second place, yet expanding the volume of goods moved by rail is absolutely critical in reducing tran …
    Policy & Leadership Theatre
    Should GBR deliver an accessible railway for all? From apps for disabled passengers to step-free stations and level boarding, how will it be funded and delivered? Will an accessible railway always rem …
Rail Safety Week Conference

Exploring key topics shaping the future of rail safety, technology, and regulation. From passenger safety to workforce protection, this is where critical conversations will happen. 

In partnership with:

Rail Forum

    Safety Theatre
    Safety Theatre
    Safety Theatre
    Safety Theatre
    Safety Theatre
    Safety Theatre
    Safety Theatre
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